Looks like she’s only taking on four others as there are scatches galore …
i AM AT WORK AND CAN’T WATCH
PLEASE oops sorry, please post what she does, I can’t watch! I expect her to win Big:yes:
Juuuuuuust enough. But enough!
thanks!
I can play around online, but can’t watch a video, or go to some sites… but i have free rein at COTH!
Victory by a head and it wasn’t a sizzling final time rather uber slow for the first half.
I really though in the stretch despite her charging that’s she’d only get 2nd but as the TVG folks said “she knows where the wire is”. Not the best ride by Mike Smith in terms of pulling the trigger a bit too slow and making her compensate.
(I cited a small field in the end it was 3 scratches and 6 horses vs Zenyatta including her stablemate, Life is Sweet)
where was life is sweet?
who was second and third?
How much weight was she carrying? This is where handicapping is going to get her, she will one day spot many pounds to some young horse and it will be hard for her…
Wish she would come east…I would love to see her…
Gotta love Zenyatta!!!
That’s surprising I think.
The Clement Hirsch is not a handicap. Indeed, I don’t believe Zenyatta is (currently) slated to run in anymore handicaps for the rest of the year. According to the NTRA site, she and Life is Sweet spotted only four pounds to the rest of the field.
Anabaa’s Creation and Lethal Heat to place and show.
Is there a replay available anywhere??? I missed it! 
Green Machine, I didn’t say it was a handicap only that the handicappers, if she runs another, will load her up with weight. I think she has already carried 129, no?
Still wish she would come east I want to see her live! and yes, I would love to see her race RA…see just who is better…
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Not really; he gave Mine That Bird a less than stellar ride recently, I believe.
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Yes, and that might have had something to do with the way he rode this race today. He asked MTB too early and Zenyatta almost too late. Is he losing his sense of timing, his confidence or what?
Smith interviewed post race on TVG remarked [words to the effect of] that Zenyatta was being playful with the field and that she only gave a fraction of her effort to make the win possible. She certainly did look exceedingly fresh after the race and was anything but tapped out. From Mike’s position he thinks that a race like this does more good for her then a 10-length victory.
That said the field wasn’t exactly strong and I’m sure it will (sadly) fuel the East Coast v West Coast debate between RA and her.
ETA: quotes from the TB Times article "Undefeated Zenyatta pulls Houdini act in Clement L. Hirsch
“I thought I had it,” Smith said. “I certainly underestimated the competition today and 1 1/16 miles is a little bit short for her. Maybe I was a little too focused on [Zenyatta’s Grade 1-winning stablemate] Life Is Sweet, but the horses that ran second and third, they ran a great race.”
“It was close; it was very close,” winning trainer John Shirreffs said. “I was just so happy, because everyone came out to see her and I wanted them to see her perform well.”
“She didn’t really take off until she crossed the wire,” Smith said. “Even before I passed them, she wasn’t giving me her all. She wasn’t even blowing when she came back.”
I guess I hadn’t really thought about it
but I have been pulled into the matchup between Zenyatta, and RA. I don’t want either one to lose. I am a little concerned about RA running in the Travers, maybe too soon after the Haskell, and a litle too far to run. And besides, even though she does better with 4-5 weeks between races, she came back and won the Preakness with two weeks rest. I don’t know. Am I still thinking this way because she is a filly?I want all the connections to make the best decisions concerning their horses. I think Mr Jackson really wants to run her at Saratoga. What are the other options? There is another 3 yr old filly race, but I don’t think she needs to run against them anymore. Older males? I noticed the snide comments of the oaf on ESPN Saturday. She isn’t HOTY material unless she beats ALL the three year olds, meaning Quality Road.whom I love by the way-But I guess I hadn’t really compared Zenyatta to Ruffian, or Personal Ensign. She has been amazing, and has done it so easily. But I know PE beat the boys, and I am pretty sure Ruffian did too. It seems as though it wouldn’t be that big a deal. I don’t know of too many colts that could run with Z girl.
Did anyone else think she looked not quite right in the right hind trotting back to the winner’s circle. It’s the first race of hers that I’ve seen on TV so I don’t remember watching her post race returns in the past. Does she just have a funky trot? I know she does the weird walk thing.
I’m not sure whether to post this here or on the RA thread, but Steve Haskin has a swell blog entry on the “rivalry” between the grrrrrls on BH this morning. Spot on!
Hold the phone on retirement at the end of 2009 … her camp is talking about very limited racing in 2010 as a 6-year old!
DRF 9-24-09 “Zenyatta could run again after Cup”
Zenyatta, the undefeated champion older female of 2008, may race into 2010 before being bred, trainer John Shirreffs said on Thursday.
[b]Zenyatta could run once or twice early in the year, probably at Santa Anita, before being sent to Kentucky for breeding.
Shirreffs said plans for 2010 are contingent on how Zenyatta performs for the remainder of this year.[/b]
Next race, as cited before, the same as last year: $300,000 Lady’s Secret Stakes for fillies and mares over 1 1/16 miles on Oct. 10th at Santa Anita
Now it would be pretty cool if they put her into the Strub Stakes which would fit the timeline cited. That three race series is in the Jan - Feb time frame at her favorite track, on her favorite surface although it would require taking on males …
Zenyatta could run once or twice early in the year, probably at Santa Anita
Now there’s a shocker.
