Trainer and Jockey quotes from the Clement Hirsch (Zenyatta)
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from the Del Mar website:
MIKE SMITH (Zenyatta) Wasnt that something! I thought I had it. But Ive got to admit I underestimated the company we were keeping today. They made her run. She really was running easy. Her ears were pricking back and forth and she was just loping. I never hit her; but I showed her the stick. I knew we had to get busy at the finish. When we got right near the wire she hit another gear. Then when we crossed and I stood up she hit another gear. On the gallop out she was drawing away. This mile and a sixteenth is a funny distance. Ill tell you, she wants to run farther. Theres no doubt. If she runs farther, shes got an advantage. When we pulled up she was hardly blowing at all. She wouldnt have blown out the match.
TYLER BAZE (Anabaas Creation) I thought I won it. I thought I got it. She (Anabaas Creation) ran her fanny off. We got beat by a champion. I didnt know where she (Zenyatta) was, but I knew she was coming. She came and just got us.
JOSEPH TALAMO (Lethal Heat) Aw, what a race. My filly ran great. I didnt think wed be on the lead, but when I nudged her and she got there she just went into cruise control. So easy. Then we turned for home and I threw it at her and she gave me her all. You cant really complain when you get beat by one like the big mare.
GARRETT GOMEZ (Life Is Sweet) I had her in a striking spot turning for home, but she just didnt have another gear today. No excuses. We just got outrun late.
JOHN SHIRREFFS (Zenyatta) -- It was very, very close down there. All the way down the stretch Im hollering, Get em, Get em. What I really liked about her race is that she had a lot of ground to make up and she put her head down and kept making it up. She never picked her head up. She kept reaching out and running for the wire. Thats Zenyatta.
FRACTIONS: :23.86 :48.84 1:13.64 1:37.28 1:43.24
According to Trakus calculations, Zenyatta ran her last quarter mile in :22.49 and reached her maximum speed of 40 mph at the wire.
MIKE SMITH (Zenyatta) Wasnt that something! I thought I had it. But Ive got to admit I underestimated the company we were keeping today. They made her run. She really was running easy. Her ears were pricking back and forth and she was just loping. I never hit her; but I showed her the stick. I knew we had to get busy at the finish. When we got right near the wire she hit another gear. Then when we crossed and I stood up she hit another gear. On the gallop out she was drawing away. This mile and a sixteenth is a funny distance. Ill tell you, she wants to run farther. Theres no doubt. If she runs farther, shes got an advantage. When we pulled up she was hardly blowing at all. She wouldnt have blown out the match.
TYLER BAZE (Anabaas Creation) I thought I won it. I thought I got it. She (Anabaas Creation) ran her fanny off. We got beat by a champion. I didnt know where she (Zenyatta) was, but I knew she was coming. She came and just got us.
JOSEPH TALAMO (Lethal Heat) Aw, what a race. My filly ran great. I didnt think wed be on the lead, but when I nudged her and she got there she just went into cruise control. So easy. Then we turned for home and I threw it at her and she gave me her all. You cant really complain when you get beat by one like the big mare.
GARRETT GOMEZ (Life Is Sweet) I had her in a striking spot turning for home, but she just didnt have another gear today. No excuses. We just got outrun late.
JOHN SHIRREFFS (Zenyatta) -- It was very, very close down there. All the way down the stretch Im hollering, Get em, Get em. What I really liked about her race is that she had a lot of ground to make up and she put her head down and kept making it up. She never picked her head up. She kept reaching out and running for the wire. Thats Zenyatta.
FRACTIONS: :23.86 :48.84 1:13.64 1:37.28 1:43.24
According to Trakus calculations, Zenyatta ran her last quarter mile in :22.49 and reached her maximum speed of 40 mph at the wire.
Comments
i had no douts, wow an intense finish
by the time she made her move i knew she had to get going an fast
an she did ,