Ruffian - maybe the greatest debut of all-time

[Linny]

The horses Z faced were not very good. They were not just "inferior beside the awesomeness that was Zenyatta." They were nearly universally slow. Especially in 2010. If they were so good, why were none in the Distaff? Clearly if you have a very good mare who just keeps being beaten by a sensation, don't you take the chance to run for $2m against just mares where the "sensation" is not going to be there?
I know St Trinians was sidelined but clearly the conections of Rinterval, Taptam, Dance to My Tune etc would have gone to the BC if they thought they had a decent horse. Last year, Anabaa's Creation, Briecat, Dawn After Dawn all passed on a Zenyatta-free Distaff as well. Why? Because they were not very good.