Stakes Analysis For Weekend of Feb. 6

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Forbidden Apple — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:43:13 GMT

Redding Colliery ran 1:47 1/5 on monday at Laurel. WOW, this must be another horse of the year candidate! I am not a hater, I just don't like it when folks start making another horse immortal based on nothing.

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Householder — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:58:06 GMT

Quality Road had his chance to "crush" Zenyatta. Instead he chose to do the "American Ghost Dance." I know everyone was a little fearful of big "Z" and certainly looking over their shoulders at the 1/16th pole but come on. He never made in in the gate. Now we're left with could of, should have would have, from It Aint Easy being good. Unreal.

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Forbidden Apple — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:54:32 GMT

Its so easy to assume,

I actually had a very good win bet on Jeranimo. Good luck with your horse of the year Quarter crack. He should be 3/5 in the Met Mile. That's a great bet!

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It Aint Easy being good — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:49:22 GMT

How about RECORD SETTING ROAD forbidden apple! QR is a beast and you haters need to crawl back under your 10 cent bet hole that you came from.

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Forbidden Apple — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:58:07 GMT

Quarter Crack Road horse of the year, keep dreaming. Maybe sprinter of the year if he can make it through the season under Pletcher's regime.

Jeranimo just won the Strub in 1:47 4/5, does that make him a horse of the year candidate?

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It Aint Easy being good — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:57:02 GMT

Oh Tim G I thought this blog was titled Stakes analysis of feb. not triple crown talk either way Quality Road will be HOY this year to bad for zenyatta!

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Mike Relva — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:10:12 GMT

IT AINT EASY BEING GOOD

Find one blog that I ever said Zenyatta would win HOY.

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Mike Relva — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:08:58 GMT

SARATOGA AJ

That might be the only thing we agree on,I also like Quality Road and think he's something special.

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Tim G — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:11:50 GMT

The point is, you're proclaiming QR the horse of 2010. Not a dang thing to do with the Derby, which I am well acquainted with.

Talk about jinxing a horse.... We talk about Derby prospects, potential winners of other races but a declaration like that? Purely to be inflammatory.

THAT was my point

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It Aint Easy being good — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:19:08 GMT

Tim G it is Febuary the derby is in may people blog get over it! Saratoga I agree that this year will be very exciting with good older horses and hopefully a new emerging 3 year old star. I think weith breeding $$ down and stars like curlin, RA and zenyatta coming back that more owners will think twice before retiring their horses!

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steve s — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:41:14 GMT

Fastest or best Turf horse

Take The Points

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Saratoga AJ — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:37:40 GMT

I don't believe anything has produced more passionate debates on the Racing Blogs than Rachel and Zenyatta. Throw in what appears to be a freak of a colt in QR, and maybe a couple of very good 3 yr. olds left standing from the Triple Crown series in Spring, and this could be a year to remember.

If there was ever a time when Racing needed a boost, and the ability to attract more fans (and better track attendance), it's now.

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Tim G — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:56:51 GMT

Good grief, it's FEBRUARY 11th!!!!

Horse of February maybe, not horse of 2010.

Please spare me the insanity of the uninformed.

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It Aint Easy being good — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:12:46 GMT

Household go back and read the title of this blog it is about Quality Road. Yeah zenyatta won the race but still wasnt crowned HOY like you all said she would be! The body of work wasnt there and she did nothing special but be a bunch of dirt horses. I still like big Z but Quality Road is the horse of 2010....PERIOD!

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Householder — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:51:56 GMT

How about top 10 Derby rides or something during "down time."

1). Willie Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand at 56.

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Householder — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:44:31 GMT

How did we get on a Zenyatta vs. Quality Road trip? Are either nominated to the Triple Crown?

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Mike Relva — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:13:58 GMT

IT AINT EASY BEING GOOD,AKA(it's easy being wrong)

Now you're trying to spin it. I think you change like the weather!

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Mike Relva — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:47:48 GMT

IT AINT EASY BEING GOOD

SO you think Zenyatta would get beat? This comes from the individual that thought ZENYATTA HAD NO CHANCE IN BREEDERS! lol

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It Aint Easy being good — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:43:30 GMT

No I said initially she has no chance then I saw a bunch of dirt horses running on plastic and changed my tune. I do like the big Z I just have a horsecrush on Quality Road he is the man and I am sort of glad he scratched that day because I dont think he would run well on plastic either!

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carolyn — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:12:19 GMT

Easy B Good, You were one of the one's that said she wouldn't win the BCC right? Don't put her out to pasture, Lets just wait and see on the tracks if he ever dares to race her, I put my money on Zenyatta if I were a betting person....

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It Aint Easy being good — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:33:37 GMT

Saratoga AJ you sum it all up in the last post at 1:11pm thank you everyone should just read his post. Poor zenyatta after 3 good years she still will never get HOY! Zenyatta reminds me alot like the vikings!

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It Aint Easy being good — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:26:54 GMT

Carolyn and apple boy: QR would crush your beloved Zenyatta....she would be spinning her wheels in the dirt plus she is going to be 6 now. Its like "All DAY" Adrian Peterson running against jackie joyner kersey! HAHA ..she would get smoked! All Day!

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Saratoga AJ — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:24:17 GMT

Laz & Relva:

I'm also not going to debate Beyer's ability to pick winners, or what he thinks or thought of Zenyatta. That's not the topic.

If you don't like what he wrote yesterday, or think he's wrong in what he said, tell him...not me.

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Saratoga AJ — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:11:37 GMT

Relva,Laz & GB:

Looks like the link did not post properly in my last entry. Check my entry yesterday @6:34PM for access to Beyer's entire column.

What I originally said is a Beyer figure like the one posted by QR Saturday may only occur every 4-5 years. And got ragged on for saying it. So to quote Beyer yesterday:

"On Saturday at Gulfstream Park, Quality Road ran spectacularly to win the $500,000 Donn Handicap by a dozen lengths in track-record time. He ran so fast that he earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 121 -- the best performance in a race at one mile or longer since Commentator won the Whitney Handicap at Saratoga in 2005".

So there you have it. I don't want to debate if a 120 is the same as 121, etc. So let's just say this horse is very fast, as evidenced by him setting 3 track records in his last 6 races. And time will tell if he's as good as some of us think he may be. Health, as always, is an issue.

And I also stand by my comment concerning how an in top form Rachel or Zenyatta may do against a QR in top form. I subscribe to the theory that GREAT fillies and mares can (and have) beat VERY GOOD colts. But not GREAT colts. Not without weight advantages well in excess of scale. And they just don't assign 130+ imposts anymore.

So, in other words, QR may be the best horse in the country right now. That's my opinion.

Again, time will tell. But what a great year we may be in store for!

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Mike Relva — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:26:29 GMT

SARATOGA AJ

Well,none other than Beyer himself,didn't give Zenyatta a prayer in the Breeders' last year. We all know how that worked out!lol