ho-lee jumpin' jehosephat!!!!!! ZENYATTA!

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What a day! Zenyatta, the mare, just won the Classic in absolutely boggling style. Dead last most of the way, against monster good colts, and blew past them at the end like they were stopped.

Fucking aaaaaawesome!

Fourteen for fourteen. First time this distance. Beat a bunch of monsters. Holy shiiiiit! Astoundingly good day at the races.

I'm going to be looking for the YouTube of this one tonight, for sure. Just outrageous. Big freakout at the gate. Had to scratch the maniac and back everybody else out for a reset. Doom. Doom. Messing with everyone's game... and... whoa! Zenyatta just waltzed through it.

I was pounding and slapping my desk and screaming.... My heart's still pounding.

[They just showed the race from the camera that followed her wire to wire, and it was a thing of beauty. She starts out lumbering and boxing and bouncing, and the jockey's just kicking back for a smoke. Then you see her switching back and forth between the normal gallop and the back hooves digging the track in unison, jockey enjoying a beer and fumbling around for the remote. And then, and then, suddenly it looks as though he's riding a horse finally, but just riding, not really doing anything and Zenyatta's smoothed out and those hindquarters just hammering with an incredible mixture of force and elegance. Finally, their heads go down simultaneously and they just fly past everyone, using whatever hole there is in any lane, ending up clear on the outside and going away.... Easy as pie. The crowd was batshit crazy, roaring so loudly I think I could have heard them from here if I hadn't been screaming even louder.]

BTW, IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW, THE BEST RACEHORSES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD COME FOR THE BREEDERS' CUP RACES.

Mine That Bird, this year's Kentucky Derby winner, was dead last. So we're not talking about just any old win here. We are talking about an historic moment. It doesn't get any better than this.

Daily Racing Form

National Thoroughbred Racing Association special

NTRA stats [...without earnings update for today's five-million-dollar purse. You can get slow-loading video of this race on this page too.]

Very slow-loading video of race here....

[Bred in Kentucky by Maverick Productions Ltd., Zenyatta, who is out of the Kris S. mare Vertigineux, boosted her earnings to $5,474,580 with her 14th victory from as many starts.]