Why retire her?

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

No they didn't create them, but they didn't go out of their way to take on top class horses away from them. That's the beef almost everyone has. How do you measure a horse's real talents, when she continues to run against most of the same horses on an unperferred surface of many top horses? It's a shame, she ran big yesterday. Makes you think that they should have traveled with more often and then alot of these arguements would have been put to bed a long time ago.

I think part of this has to do with timing. It could very well be that she was a victim of the synthetic era just as much as it seems she was a beneficiary of it.

If BC 2008 and/or 2009 had been at Churchill as opposed to Santa Anita, might she have proven her point? If last year's BC was at churchill downs, might her connections been a little more "aggressive" in their campaigning? And if it was at churchill last year, what horse was going to beat her based on what we saw yesterday and the form she showed last year? Again, I know that this is speculation.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

I think part of this has to do with timing. It could very well be that she was a victim of the synthetic era just as much as it seems she was a beneficiary of it.

If BC 2008 and/or 2009 had been at Churchill as opposed to Santa Anita, might she have proven her point? If last year's BC was at churchill downs, might her connections been a little more "aggressive" in their campaigning? And if it was at churchill last year, what horse was going to beat her based on what we saw yesterday and the form she showed last year? Again, I know that this is speculation.

We can only pretend to know any answers to these.

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

I think part of this has to do with timing. It could very well be that she was a victim of the synthetic era just as much as it seems she was a beneficiary of it.

If BC 2008 and/or 2009 had been at Churchill as opposed to Santa Anita, might she have proven her point? If last year's BC was at churchill downs, might her connections been a little more "aggressive" in their campaigning? And if it was at churchill last year, what horse was going to beat her based on what we saw yesterday and the form she showed last year? Again, I know that this is speculation.

I think she was a victim of her connections that for certain reasons didn't want to ship her across the country. She would have been a force on the dirt as well and it's a shame that she was never given other opportunites to prove how good she was by racing against other horses, then against most of the creampuffs that she continued to beat on the Cali circuit (BC 09 aside, even though that wasn't a tremendous bunch either).

[Princess Doreen]

I don't have an opinion one way or another. But, I do think the Moss's may be considering Dubai. I believe they are desperate for Zenyatta to recoup the little bit of prestige she may have lost yesterday. However, another loss would send Jerry Moss and Mike Smith straight to the looney bin.