The Zenyatta Stakes with Zenyatta
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WTF?
Weird. I'm not sure why the race should be renamed in the first place, or really, why all this stakes renaming happens all the time, anyway. And why the hurry on this one, when the bloody horse is still running?
Don't they think it is weird, and potentially embarrassing, or even potentially humiliating, to the horse that they are trying to honor? And who would dare to even take a chance of humiliating this good horse? My god, what if she loses it, or worse, breaks down in the race? Not to be morbid, but it it's a f-ing horse race, and as we know it happens to best of them... And can you imagine the publicity if something like this did happen in the renamed, much touted and headlined Zenyatta stakes race? Horse racing is one bad nationally televised breakdown from total public banishment, any way, and I think something like this would bring the whole sport down in flames.
Seems like a dishonor, to me.
I can only guess that there is a payoff for somebody, somewhere in this stunt and the others like them. I have no idea who, how, or why, but it has to have something to do with money.
What gives???
ETA: The whole thing just gives me the creeps.
Weird. I'm not sure why the race should be renamed in the first place, or really, why all this stakes renaming happens all the time, anyway. And why the hurry on this one, when the bloody horse is still running?
Don't they think it is weird, and potentially embarrassing, or even potentially humiliating, to the horse that they are trying to honor? And who would dare to even take a chance of humiliating this good horse? My god, what if she loses it, or worse, breaks down in the race? Not to be morbid, but it it's a f-ing horse race, and as we know it happens to best of them... And can you imagine the publicity if something like this did happen in the renamed, much touted and headlined Zenyatta stakes race? Horse racing is one bad nationally televised breakdown from total public banishment, any way, and I think something like this would bring the whole sport down in flames.
Seems like a dishonor, to me.
I can only guess that there is a payoff for somebody, somewhere in this stunt and the others like them. I have no idea who, how, or why, but it has to have something to do with money.
What gives???
ETA: The whole thing just gives me the creeps.
"I'll lay me down and bleed a while, and then I'll rise and fight again." Sir Barton
Back to the Lady's Secret again....with any luck she'll blow them off and run in the Beldame. TJ
http://www.drf.com/news/zenyatta-stakes ... ecret-year
http://www.drf.com/news/zenyatta-stakes ... ecret-year
