Simply the Best: Zenyatta

Unfortanlly the video doesn't allow embedding, so here is a link to Tina Turner's Simply the Best. And that's what Zenyatta was on Saturday.

I had planned to do a full recap of each of the 14 races on today, but this girl deserves her own post tonight. What an historic achivement that she did, first female to ever win the Breeders' Cup Classic something Azeri couldn't do. The question is do can you deny her Horse of the Year, I say no. However, I also think Rachel Alexandra deserves Horse of the Year as well. That's right I think there should be Co-Horse of the Year, they both deserve it. It's really a shame that they are not going to face each other, that would have settled the confusion and we may have had a clear cut Horse of the Year. And people like to blame one connections over the other, I'm going to blame both. Jess Jackson should have brought Rachel to Santa Anita and Jerry Moss should have brought Zenyatta to Belmont or Saratoga. What Santa Anita have done is make special accomandations for Rachel and NYRA should have excused Zenyatta from going to the detention barn. Unfortnally that was never ment to be, and they stayed their seperate paths. This is going to be an interesting debate for the rest of the year and we won't know till January of who will be HOY. Until then let's enjoy the Amazon that is Zenyatta Mondatta (the full title of the Police album that she is named after, of course Jerry Moss is the M in A & M Records where the Police made their name in the US.)




Congrats to John and Dottie Shirreffs, her trainer and the racing manager for her owners respectivly, jockey Mike Smith, Jerry and Ann Moss her owners, the entire Shirreffs barn for their sweep of the Ladies Classic and Classic, and of course Zenyatta's parents Street Cry and Vertigineux.
Tomorrow I will recap the rest of the 2 days of action and then will be taking the rest of the week off to recover from an exciting two days of racing. Starting next week I'll be sharing some of my favorite races of the year, plus comparing this year's 3yo's to one of my favorite 3yo year 2007. Also I will be starting to share stories of retired thoroughbred race horses in the upcoming weeks.