Apple Blossom

[Silver Charm]

MONSTROUS

[sekrah]

Nice effort against 4 more tomato cans without a single Graded Stakes win in the past 8 months.  

Yea.. Monstrous.

[Silver Charm]

P-Dub where are u now??

[P-Dub]

Not her fault Rachel ducked her.

$500,000 purse, dirt track, out of California.

Some people will bitch about anything.  And you had the nerve to call me out for having a miserable little life.

\"Wow, that sounds like a miserable bitter little life you got there P-Dub. You need a vacation\".

You are a clown. A big hypocrite of a clown. You sound more ridiculous with every cynical piece of nonsense you utter.

Here is one of the greatest racehorses of all time, male or female, winning her 16th consecutive race.  You come here and attempt, yet again, to throw cold water all over it.

You are so cynical and joyless, that you can\'t just appreciate her greatness.

And I\'m the one with \"a miserable bitter little life\". LOL.

[smalltimer]

You need to spend a couple bucks and buy some class.
P-Dub, myself, and several others who are Z fans spend a lot of words complimenting Rachel and her successes.  
You gotta be totally clueless to not give some props to the BC Distaff champ, the BC Classic champ and now still undefeated at age 6 with 16 straight wins.  It just doesn\'t compute sekrah.
I know you think Z is a bummette, but if she\'s such a bum, then why did Asmussen not bridle up Rachel and show you what a bum he thinks she is?
Z ran, she won on dirt outside of California, that should be good enough for at least at acknowledgment on your part that she\'s pretty good.
So, who you touting tonight at Penn National?  A bunch of real tomato cans?
As far as my race buddy P-Dub.  While he and I spent some nice time at the Breeder\'s Cup in November, when I headed home, he and his gal headed to Hawaii, and then followed that up with a trip to Mexico.  Such a miserable existence.  Where you been lately?

[sekrah]

What do you want me to say?  If an Allowance horse beats up 10k Claimers ten times in a row are we suppose to go over the top?

Be Fair - 1 win in last 7 races, Allowance 42k.
Taptam - 4 wins out last 7, 2 listed stakes, Allowance $42k, Optional CL $35k.
War Echo - 2 wins out last 5, 1 listed stakes, Allowance $50k
Just Jenda - The only fringe Grade 3 horse in the field.


Why are we suppose to just go overboard with superlatives everytime we watch her destroy these glorified Allowance horses??  Moss and Shirreffs are outstanding horsemen who know how to get their horses into great spots.

[Silver Charm]

Then you were watching the wrong thing if you were watching the Allowance horses.

Now I understand

[sekrah]

The greatest synthetic horse that ever lived.. in the 5 odds year of synthetic racing.  I\'m very impressed.   Appreciate what greatness?   Dominating the bogus synthetic surface.  Yea, she did that.  You act like she\'s writing history as one of the greatest horses that ever lived and that\'s a joke.  

Ducked her?  Rachel took a break, got her training derailed by the weather and wasn\'t fit.  Why race an unfit horse?

I\'m sorry you have trouble handling the facts.

[sekrah]

Yes she buried Allowance horses.. Yippee.. Pop the champagne cork.. Greatest ever..  Undisputable... I get it.

[sekrah]

Just because you acknowledge the facts that Rachel is brilliant, that means I must ignore the fact that Zenyatta beat 4 Listed Stakes/Allowance-calibre horses today?

[smalltimer]

Who are you kidding sekrah?  This mare will go down in history as one of the all-time greats.  Rachel will be more looked at as a Favorite Trick type animal.  Rachel will have to come back in her 4 year old year to her prior greatness and actually beat some good horses to get in that conversation as best ever.  
So you think it\'s gonna be easy this year for Rachel, or Quality Road or Summer Bird OR Zenyatta to dominate those other great horses?  Any of these 4 are capable of winning any race with the other 3 runners in it.  If these 4 all get fit and are on top of their game these are some real heavyweights. This looks to be a great year if they can all stay healthy.  
You come across as though you think if Rachel is fit then Z offers no competition. That\'s just ignorance on your part.  The biggest thing Rachel and these other great horses have going for them is Z is 6 years old and is getting older every day.  
I don\'t mean to be a jerk.  We both look forward to their meeting.

[P-Dub]

Sekrah, you miss the point.

All we\'ve heard for over a year is she is a synthetic, California specialist.  So she runs on dirt, in Arkansas, for a half mil. They tried everything to get other horses to run. They didn\'t.

She has beaten every horse that has tried to beat her. Ginger Punch was the defending BC Distaff champ and she dusted her in this same race 2 years ago. She beat males in the BC Classic, and say what you want about surface etc.... there were some pretty nice horses in that race. She beat them all.

It takes a pretty cynical person to continually try to poke holes in the resume of an all time great. And she is every bit of that.

She is a thing of beauty to watch in the paddock, the post parade, and especially running on a race track. Her closing style only adds to the excitement, watching her run at the back of the pack, smoothly getting into contention, and rolling to the front as she lays it down at the 1/8 pole.

I\'m not going to get into another pissing contest with you, I made my point in my previous post. This may be a Thorograph board, where the main focus is using the product to find good value bets.

But sometimes this sport is about more than cashing a ticket. And when we ALL can witness one of the truly great ones perform, regardless of the competiton today, we should ALL just savor it. Just like we savor each of Rachel Alexandra\'s peformances.

She doesn\'t sneak into town and ambush the competition. She welcomes any and all horses. Just sit back and enjoy it.

[smalltimer]

One more point and then I\'m done with you on this \"discussion.\"
I acknowledge Rachel\'s PAST brilliance in 2009.  If she continues to be brilliant in 2010 remains to be seen. Just so you know, where Rachel goes, Zenyatta will go.  Eventually, they\'ll meet.  If they don\'t, it won\'t be because Z isn\'t willing to throw down with Rachel.  Two great ones....It\'s that simple....
Peace out.

[P-Dub]

sekrah Wrote:
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> You act like she\'s writing history as
> one of the greatest horses that ever lived and
> that\'s a joke.  
>
> Ducked her?  Rachel took a break, got her training
> derailed by the weather and wasn\'t fit.  Why race
> an unfit horse?
>
> I\'m sorry you have trouble handling the facts.


Whats that saying....

Better to have someone think you\'re a fool, rather than opening your mouth and removing all doubt??

Well Sekrah, thanks for removing the doubt.

Honestly, you don\'t think she is an all time great? Sad little man. My condolences.

[sekrah]

She wasnt the only horse who beat a Ginger Punch (who was a shell of herself that day) in that race.  Brownie\'s Point did too, who is she?

Because nobody ran against her today, that means she conquered dirt?  Please.  What a load of drivel.
 
She caught a soft-classic field with no real garbage (synth) runners.  The main Euro, RVW was all banged up and not 100%.  

I just acknowledged she is the greatest American synthetic racer in the long storied, 5 year history of synthetic tracks in America.   You cite beating 4 glorified allowance horses as evidence that she owns the dirt too.  Because nobody chose to run against her today, that means she conquered dirt?  Please.  What a load of drivel that was.