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Originally Posted by Fager Fan
Zenyatta ran great in defeat. I take no issue with that.
But what I have noticed with most fillies who have beaten colts in dirt routes, they did so without "mixing it up" with the males. They either got loose on the lead or were deep closers. I theorize that going head to head with other males the whole way around, possibly bumping and feeling the physical presence of stronger males, is tougher for the female. It has made me appreciate more the efforts of those who did well while running with a style that "mixed it up" with the males. Zenyatta could've been racing against cheetahs or tractors. She was by herself running until she ran by them in the clear down the lane.
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Rags outdueling Curlin in the Belmont was your kind of thing, then.
