Roger Stein on Beyer on Zenyatta

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Dahoss

So in your opinion her record would have been the same if there was no such thing as synthetics? That seems like a pretty big stretch.

It depends who she would have been running against. If she would have been running in 12 horse fields against grade I males, of course she would have got beaten plenty of times.

But against the horses she faced in California, I think she would have won by far bigger margins had the races been on dirt.