RACHEL ALEXANDRA - 2009 Woodward Stakes

RA put together a great resume and the votes are in.
RA will be HoY.
That said she was dying here and never went over 1 3/16.
I feel that Zenyatta would have run right by her just as Z did everyone else in every race she ever ran.

jermocide, are you implying that RA may not be back in 2010? There's plenty of talk that if she's HOY she'll be retired & bred to Curlin...

Hmmm. Interesting. It's all good. We'll only have to hear about her for another month, then on to this year. And what a year it will be.

I still see duhru is here making sure he responds negatively to anybody who might like Rachel Alexandra. How sad.

duhru: when Rachel thumped Summer Bird in the Haskell, was he "THE BEST IN THE WORLD" , as you're now saying he was when he ran in the BC? How about MtB, who RA beat in the Preakness? He sucked in the Preakness, but had become part of "THE BEST IN THE WORLD" field in the BC??

Richard's Kid was a fluke in PC. Rip van W. was not himself. Gio Ponti is better on turf. Quality Road didn't even make it into the actual race. StS & RA, the best in the world, did not enter. BC field:hardly the "BEST"

Hey getcreamed, that's what "devil's advocate" means: what I proposed (MtB for HOY) was only proposed to show how ridiculous it would be to give Zenyatta HOY based on, like MtB, ONE race.

Any trainer who rests a horse all year with a weak campaign like Z., when that horse clearly has major advantages (e.g. not racing at 2 YO, not shipping anywhere, size) over its usual competition is going to give that horse an edge when it eventually faces a better, but not GREAT, field. This was Zen's '09 BC

@getcreamed Only ting phoney is Rachel's owner who now wants to race Zenyatta on PLASTIC. STFU with you bullsht

@getcreamed The only thing bogus is this overrated overhype overmarket Rachel whose Woodward win expose her for what she really is

A marginal grade 2 horse barely beating a grade 3 horses in Macho again and Bullsbay.

STOP KIDDING YOURSELVES. She beat restricted 3 year old barely grade 1 horses while ZENYATTA BEAT THE BEST IN THE WORLD.

TVG is based in LA and they are a bunch of homeys, yet overall they still believe RA will win HOY. We'll find out on Jan 18 but since that event is based in LA the deck is stacked in favor of the home crowd favorite. Shoot, Zenyatta's entire career has been orchestrated like a Hollywood movie script.

You're kidding right? Well then I'll opt for Gitano Hernando who beat a similar field Zenyatta beat a month before the BC at Santa Anita. In other words the BC was B-O-G-U-S. Next year real dirt not phony dirt.