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Rachel is not slated to run in the BC at Santa Anita. Her owner Jess Jackson hates synthetic tracks, he says it’s not proper racing. Of course we all know it’s mostly because his super horse Curlin got beaten last year in the Classic, and he blames the surface (like many American racing fans do), not the fact that his horse was over the top and met two damn good horses on the day.
Zenyatta defintely likes the synthetics, all but one of her races have been in SoCal on some variety of rubber, either the Cushion track at Hollywood, the Polytrack at Del Mar, or the Pro Ride at SA. And yes, she has never faced males, plus she has never run farther than 9f, like most fillies in the US. Actually the majority of her races have been at 8.5f.
RA too is suspect beyond 9f, as you can see from her Preakness run, where she appeared to weaken, another 100yards and she would have been caught that day.
While they are two great fillies, I would probably bet against them going 10f in the Classic, esp if Sea the Stars showed up.The whole thing is a joke anyway. These super trainers, like Assmussen, Pletcher etc, have multiple strings of horses scattered at various tracks throughout the US. So basically each string is actually being trained on a day to day basis by assistants. When the trainer gets a ban all his horses are then transfered into the name of the assistant trainers. So nothing really changes on a day to day basis as far as the horse is concerned. For example, Curlin ran under Scott Blasi’s name for a chunk of his career, while Assmussen was sitting out an earlier ban.
That race was won by Baeza, pure and simple.
One of the greatest, if notthe
greatest, rides of all times. The man had an amazing internal chronometer.
"milkshaking" is basically combining various drugs and administering them to your horses. Similar to what Dutrow did with Big Brown.
No.
Milkshaking is the use of sodium bicarbonate (several ounces of baking soda dissolved in a gallon of water and administered by tube) to help overcome the build up of lactic acid. It’s already illegal in just about every racing juridiction in the US, so not sure why they mention here, probably just for PR reasons.It was actually worse than that UM – I was at Thurles yesterday so I saw all that happened. The fall was horriffic and it was not until after the race was over that they turned up with the screens. Then whne the screens were up – and this is something I shall never forget – the filly actually leapt right up in the air, flew out from behind the screens before collapsing again.
What you likely saw was the reaction to the barbituate used to euthanize the mare. It’s not uncommon for horses to flail around momentarily after the injection.
That was a particularly tough race, with some nasty looking falls, esp the two at the final fence. Thankfully they both hopped to their feet.
