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[massi8183]

ciao dap, stasera a OakTree at Hollywood Park ci sono un paio di corse interessanti

00:39 Italiane c'è il match nelle Norfolk tra J Ps Gusto e Jaycinto

01:15 c'è Zenyatta (who?)

io quasi quasi una bancatella @ 1/5 gliela ribogo

[zeroverde]

ciao dap, stasera a OakTree at Hollywood Park ci sono un paio di corse interessanti

00:39 Italiane c'è il match nelle Norfolk tra J Ps Gusto e Jaycinto

01:15 c'è Zenyatta (who?)

io quasi quasi una bancatella @ 1/5 gliela ribogo

Giù le mani da Zenyatta !!! Ci sono in vendita ottime foto, me ne sono fatto recapitare una direttamente dagli States !!! c' è chi ha la Madonna sopra la testata del letto...... io mi tengo la mia ZENYATTA.

[dap]

E' bello questo pro/contro Zenyatta E sarà  un brutto giorno quello in cui anche lei sarà  ritirata.
Mica nascono ogni anno campionesse come Rachel e Zenyatta.

Stasera non vorrei perdermi le due corse citate da Massi. Mi segno gli orari e mi porto dietro il piccolo pc.

Approfitto per rinnovare l'invto a fare molta attenzione all'utilizzo di betfair per le corse americane. A volte vi sono discrepanze enormi tra la partenza reale e il "suspended" di bf.
Da qualche tempo accade un pò troppo spesso e vistosamente anche per le corse UK. Meglio non dimenticare di togliere le scommesse per tempo.

[zeroverde]

numero di JAYCITO, quarta corsia costante per tutto il percorso demolisce i rivali.

[Distant]

Il boato della folla per accompagnare sul palo Zenyatta, che ha sofferto parecchio....ma ha vinto ancora.....

[zeroverde]

Vince ZENYATTA, ma che fatica contro una femmina di 3 anni, SWITCH tiene botta fino in fondo, ma cede mezza lunghezza alla campionessa. Discutibile la monta di Mike Smith anzichè partire in lunga progressione aspetta la retta per sprintare.... follia pura, ma anche questa volta ZENYATTA centra il bersaglio

GO ZENYATTA !!!!

[dap]

Ci sarà  da divertirsi in occasione delle Breeders
Un bel numero di partecipanti poco conosciuti ma che hanno le carte in regola per fare dei numeri.

Per Zenyatta che aggettivi si potrebbero trovare? Non credo ne esistano ancora

[zeroverde]

MAKFY entra in razza .

[massi8183]

Giù le mani da Zenyatta !!! Ci sono in vendita ottime foto, me ne sono fatto recapitare una direttamente dagli States !!! c' è chi ha la Madonna sopra la testata del letto...... io mi tengo la mia ZENYATTA.

ciao zeroverde, c'è un tipo che ha fatto un articolo interessante sul WashingtonPost prima della 19esima vittoria di Zenyatta

Zenyatta's fast, but doesn't belong in racing's pantheon
Californians have always loved their thoroughbred stars, but no horse in many years has excited them as Zenyatta has. They will roar for her at Hollywood Park on Saturday, when she makes her final appearance in her home state and tries to win her 19th consecutive race.
Zenyatta inspires fierce passions. When she defeated males in the Breeders' Cup Classic last fall, her fans hailed the performance as one of the best in the history of the event - and maybe in the history of the sport. When the mare subsequently lost the horse of the year title to Rachel Alexandra, her partisans reacted with white-hot anger. The blogosphere is regularly filled with sharp rebukes for anybody who demeans Zenyatta or even suggests she is not one of the greatest racehorses of all time.
Compiling an 18-for-18 career record is an extraordinary feat. Horse races contain so many potential pitfalls that no high-class U. S. horse has put together such a streak since Hindoo in 1881. Nevertheless (at the risk of inflaming the blogosphere), I could not put Zenyatta on a list of all-time great racehorses.
My judgment is based partly on the fact that she has compiled her record by running mostly against moderate female competition - such as the field in Lady's Secret Stakes on Saturday. But the main reason for questioning Zenyatta's place in history is the fact she is a synthetic-track specialist, albeit the best in the brief history of these surfaces. In my view, it is a dubious distinction to be the poster girl for the surfaces that have robbed the sport here of its unique character.
California once had the most exciting and vibrant racing in the nation, and East vs. West rivalries animated the sport for decades. While California never had the quality of bloodstock that populated the New York tracks, it had something else: speed. The dirt racing strips in the West were fast and speed-favoring, and trainers accordingly honed horses' speed by training them hard and fast. Jockeys rode aggressive from the gate, and the early pace of races was quicker than in any other racing jurisdiction on the planet. The nature of the game was breathtaking, and fans loved it.
When horses toughened by this style of racing came East, they often ran away from their supposedly classier rivals. Fast horses such as Precisionist, Winning Colors, Sunday Silence, Bayakoa, Criminal Type, Silver Charm and Congaree advertised the virtues of California racing.
When California's racing regulators mandated that traditional dirt tracks be replaced by synthetic surfaces as of 2008, they didn't anticipate the consequence of their decision, but they essentially legislated speed out of the game. On the new synthetic surfaces, raw speed was not an asset and sometimes was a significant liability.
Jockeys adjusted accordingly. Horses would typically travel at a moderate pace until their acceleration in the stretch decided the race. In the 16 Breeders' Cups races run over Santa Anita's synthetic surface in 2008 and 2009, not a single front-runner wound up in the winner's circle, and most races were won by a horse rallying from far behind. Zenyatta's ability to unleash an exceptional late burst of speed makes her so potent on synthetic tracks. In the stretch run of the Breeders' Cup Classic, she flew past some rivals who had distinguished themselves as powerful finishers. But just twice has she ventured outside of California to run on dirt, beating a good field of fillies at Oaklawn Park in 2008 and a weak group there this year.
There is still no evidence she is as potent on dirt as she is on synthetics. Probably she isn't; dirt and synthetics are so different that few horses are top-class on both. (The 0-for-43 record of horses making the transition from dirt to synthetics in the Santa Anita Breeders Cups laid to rest the clichàƒÂ© that "a good horse can run on anything."
Most racing fans regret that owner Jerry Moss and trainer John Shirreffs have been so conservative in their management of Zenyatta that they didn't give her more opportunities to prove herself on dirt. (If the mare had gone East to confront a below-her-prime Rachel Alexandra this summer, she might have won the Zenyatta vs. Rachel debate once and for all.) However, after Zenyatta's final Hollywood appearance, Moss and Shirreffs plan to run her against the nation's best males over the dirt at Churchill Downs Nov. 6.
This Breeders' Cup Classic will be the defining race of her life, and if she wins (or even loses a close one), she can silence all of the skeptics. I doubt that she will. If Zenyatta retires without beating top-class competition on dirt, how will history view her?
A few years from now, the distinction of excelling on synthetic tracks may not mean much. Amid growing disillusionment with synthetics, Santa Anita this fall is replacing its track with dirt. Hollywood Park will eventually be turned into a real-estate development. At that point there will be only two racetracks in the United States, both with short meetings, that offer Grade I or Grade II stakes on synthetic surfaces: Del Mar and Keeneland.
When racing fans of the future look back at the record of a mare who excelled on long-forgotten substances called Pro-Ride and Cushion Track, they are apt to regard Zenyatta as a historical curiosity rather than an all-time great racehorse.

by Andrew Beyer

questo Beyer non è proprio un budino ehh...

Andrew Beyer is an American expert on horse race betting who designed what has become known as the Beyer Speed Figure.
In the early 1970s, while working for the Washington Daily News, Beyer did extensive work on the concept of speed figures and wrote books that helped popularize their use. By calculating variables such as the track conditions and the horse's time, Beyer speed figures give a measure of how fast a horse was in a given race. This number can then be used to compare a given horse's "speed" against its competition in an upcoming race, despite the fact that the horses have all run in different races, at different tracks, and are different calibers of horses. Speed figures have come into general usage and many racing forms include them in their publications.
Andrew Beyer is the author of four books on racing and has been The Washington Post's horse racing columnist since 1978. He attended Harvard University.

firmato lasettadirachelalexandra!!

ciao

[zeroverde]

su una cosa concordo : la vostra è proprio una setta

Setta : organizzazione basata sul fanatismo e sull' obbedienza cieca ai capi...

ciao alla prossima

[hurricanes]

Oggi avevo un po' di tempo e ho preso due ronzini ad Ascot. Alla prima Marine Commando V/P, alla terza Vulcanite V/P ed all'ultima Humidor V/P e mi è sorto un dubbio che giro a voi molto ma molto più esperti di me. L'ippica italiana, soprattutto al momento non può competere con l'ippica inglese nemmeno a livello di cavalli in gara da quanto go potuto dedurre leggendo qua e la. Però una domanda mi sorge spontanea e cioè i migliori cavalli di oggi in Italia in che classe sarebbero competitivi in UK? Così per curiosità .

Buon week-end a tutti

Ciao

[hurricanes]

Alla 1° di Kempton Hip Hop Hooray V/P e poi alla 1° di Salisbury Sylas Ings V/P

[hurricanes]

Ultima di oggi 8° Kempton Harding Hill V/P

[Davide (ITY)]

Adoro Zenyatta (guardo tutto quello che c'e' da vedere su youtube, davvero un mondo di roba), ma a mio modestissimo parere ZARVAKA è forse uno zinzinellino sopra, sicuramente su Rachel

E' bello questo pro/contro Zenyatta E sarà  un brutto giorno quello in cui anche lei sarà  ritirata.
Mica nascono ogni anno campionesse come Rachel e Zenyatta.

Stasera non vorrei perdermi le due corse citate da Massi. Mi segno gli orari e mi porto dietro il piccolo pc.

Approfitto per rinnovare l'invto a fare molta attenzione all'utilizzo di betfair per le corse americane. A volte vi sono discrepanze enormi tra la partenza reale e il "suspended" di bf.
Da qualche tempo accade un pò troppo spesso e vistosamente anche per le corse UK. Meglio non dimenticare di togliere le scommesse per tempo.

[zeroverde]

per gli amanti dell' ostacolismo oggi nell' ippodromo di Exeter si è tenuto il debutto in chase di CELESTIAL HALO che ritrovava la sua monta abituale ( R. Walsh ) tutti sapranno che il bravo Walsh si fratturò un braccio cadendo proprio da CELESTIAL l' aprile scorso nell' Aintree Meeting.
La corsa : CELESTIAL HALO molto appoggiato al betting, dopo aver saltato con estrema facilità  inforcava il quart 'ultimo ostacolo finendo a terra, povero Ruby, tra il disappunto e lo stupore del pubblico.

Ippodromo maledetto quello di Exeter che in passato ha visto la morte dell' immenso BEST MATE e la caduta di KAUTO STAR quest' ultimo però prontamente rimontato da Ruby, al mo' di cosacco terminava secondo ad una incollatura dal vincitore.