Clement Hirsh #7

[MonmouthGuy]

Thanks for your response.

We will never know if that number was slop aided or slop hindered.

I am just hoping they all stay sound until October so we can find out.  While Blame could also give him a handful at 10F, I don\'t think QR will be pushed enough up front tomorrow to give him something to run at.

[P-Dub]

Agree MG, lets hope they all make it to the gate. That would be one hell of a race.

Good luck this weekend.

[jimbo66]

Richiebee,

Not sure why the two owners of the two best fillies of the 10 years owing it to racing to have the fillies meet doesn\'t sit well with you.  It would be a disgusting shame if they overlapped two full campaigns and never met.  How would you feel if they decide after the NFC and AFC championship games they just don\'t play the Superbowl.  Sport is about competing.  Anybody who is more than mildly interested in seeing Zenyatta win the Hirsch tomorrow is way more of a fan than me.  It is a lousy lousy competitive race, the same lousy lousy competitive race Rachel ran in at Monmouth.  

P-Dub and BBB,

I can understand you believing that Quality Road isn\'t at his best at 1 1/4,but I will respectfully disagree.  His two 1 1/4 races were in the slop, which is a surface he doesn\'t like.  As somebody pointed out, he still ran faster in that race than zenyatta has ever run.  And QR\'s best races (figure wise) have come at 1 1/8, not shorter distances.  I think he gets the 1 1/4 just fine.  Rachel, I don\'t know.  Zenyatta gets it, but will get it in slower time than Quality Road will. That I will bet.

[richiebee]

jimbo66 Wrote:
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> Richiebee,
>
> Not sure why the two owners of the two best
> fillies of the 10 years owing it to racing to have
> the fillies meet doesn\'t sit well with you.  It
> would be a disgusting shame if they overlapped two
> full campaigns and never met.  How would you feel
> if they decide after the NFC and AFC championship
> games they just don\'t play the Superbowl.  Sport
> is about competing.  Anybody who is more than
> mildly interested in seeing Zenyatta win the
> Hirsch tomorrow is way more of a fan than me.  It
> is a lousy lousy competitive race, the same lousy
> lousy competitive race Rachel ran in at Monmouth.

Jimbo:

I am not anxious to see these two run against each other before the Breeder\'s
Cup Classic. My feeling is that unless they met in a stakes race open to males,
such as the Woodward, that they would end up racing against a short field in a
virtual match race. And an actual match race would be rather unsatisfying.

Most of the respect I have for Zenyatta came only after her BC Classic triumph.
What made Rachel special as a 3YO was her performances against males. If either
one of these Amazons wins the BC Classic, were talking immortality.

Agreed as to the field Zenyatta faces tomorrow. If this race was weighted as a
pure handicap, most of these would be getting no less than 15 pounds from
Zenyatta.

I will not wager on this sequence, but will certainly watch, because the
alternative is watching the Mets.

If the Wilpons, Minaya and Manuel had all served in the US Army in WWII, I would
be typing in German right now.

[Leamas57]

Zenyatta has no chance in the Breeders cup this year--the Breeder\'s Cup is in Waterloo as far as she\'s concerned. Sorry guys.

--Leamas