RACHEL ALEXANDRA - 2009 Preakness Stakes

Rachel Alexandra FOR THE WIN!!!!!

agree completely abou y zenyetta based on beyer figs was not supposed to win but I figured out beyers are not true speed figs on synthetic surface

mine that bird almost caught RA

What an amazing filly and an historic race!

Here is a perfect example of why numbers and different era comparisions are meaningly. Ruffian ran this race at Aqueduct (sp) and ran around 2 turns. RA at Belmont and ran around 1 turn. Two entirely diferent races.

Do you mean meaningless, not meaningly? Different era comparisons are meaningful. To say they are not is just your opinion. Andrew Beyer has compiled speed ratings for horses for at least the last 20 years. He's highly respected, but I suppose you're going to say that's meaningly (meaningless) too.

Opps, typo sorry, yeah meaningless. lol. Yup, Beyer speed rating are meaningless too. Beyer said Zenyatta, based on speed rating, would not even hit the board in the BCC. So much for Beyer. FYI, my point was Ruffian never ran this one turn Belmont race so RA never beat Ruffian record. Care to respond to that? Or would you prefer to ding my spelling and site know nothing bean counters?

Once again, this is your opinion that you are trying to present as fact. Saying that comparing past and present champions is meaningless is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of ,because you have to compare the horses of today to the ones who came before. And yeah, I dissed your spelled because I couldn't figure out at first what the heck you were saying.

Well if you consider a one turn race at Belmont the same as a two turn race at Aquduct, then we probably don't have a lot to talk about. bye.

Once again, 'on paper' Beyer's pre-race assessment made sense. Zenyatta had been winning with unimpressive speed figures against largely unimpressive horses. Her 112 Beyer in the BCC was indeed her lifetime best race and it was a combination of factors that led to that success. Seems like every horse fired in the race but in the stretch, Zenyatta just made it look easy. She stepped up and DID IT.