A nice video from the Los Angeles Times on Zenyatta's victory in Saturday's Lady's Secret.
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Matt Gardner
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I wish
They had more crowd shots, but you definitely get a bit of an idea on how loud it got down the stretch.
Awesome...
You know what I really want for this horse? I would like her to win the BC Classic…by 15 lengths. Take that Andy Beyer!
Now is the time boys to make a big noise.
No matter what the people say,
For there is naught to fear, the gang's all here,
So hail West Virginia, hail.
If she wins, you know how she'll do it.
While I really like a lot of what Beyer writes (he’s truly a pioneer in this sport), he’s way off with regards to Zenyatta. It’s been nice to see other writers, even at the DRF, pen pieces as a response to that article.
Regardless of what happens in the Classic, Zenyatta has done things in her career that are truly great regardless of surface. If it was so easy to win against "inferior competition" and/or on synthetic surfaces, we’d have seen something like her before. And we haven’t.
"A bad day at the track is better than a good day at the office."
by Matt Gardner on Oct 12, 2010 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions
Different sport
But it kinda reminds me of what folks say about Boise State in college football (not to start a debate on that here). Sometimes you can only run (or play against) whoever shows up to face you.
I know Zenyatta is special. Some folks will never ever come around. Hell, some writers still believe that Easy Goer was better than Sunday Silence. Maybe he was, but he couldn’t do it when it mattered.
With Beyer
I think he continues to struggle with races over synthetic surfaces and how to assess them given the fact that his speed figures are less descriptive over those surfaces than they are for dirt races. He sees numbers for Zenyatta that don’t suggest greatness in his eyes so, therefore, she mustn’t be great. What I find odd is that he’s been watching horse racing for a long, long time so you would think he would understand the difficulty in accomplishing what she’s done. Or maybe he’s just a newspaperman trying to sell papers. Who knows.
"A bad day at the track is better than a good day at the office."
by Matt Gardner on Oct 12, 2010 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Just one guy's opinion
But here’s an interesting take on the man.
http://thoroughbredracing.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/a-smart-beyer/
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