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Originally Posted by pandy
Zenyatta raced four seasons, so while she did not have the tough schedules as the horses of yesteryear, she did more than many modern day horses who retired after their three year old seasons, or a horse like Ghostzapper, who only ran 7 races.
I doubt Arrogate will race after this season, but, we have to take what we can get these days.
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Zenyatta's critics are right that she could have and should have done a lot more, but they are wrong about how much she actually did.
Here's a simple metric on Zenyatta. And we can even throw out the synthetic races to do it (although we shouldn't). How long until another mare either wins the BC Classic or finishes second beaten a head or less? Will it be 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? 30 years?
I mean, people talk about this horse as if females are finishing second on the dirt in the BC Classic all the time. They just aren't. Heck, we had another top female a year later (Havre de Grace), really good mare, and she was up the track in the BC Classic. This isn't easy to do.