Can Zenyatta win the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Classic?
By: Seth Edward O'Neal
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The most anticipated race in the Breeders Cup is the 2010 Breeders Cup Classic on Saturday afternoon when the unbeaten Zenyatta will try to make it a perfect 20 for 20. She is the 8-5 morning line favorite in a field of 12 for the $5 million dollar classic.
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The favorite Zenyatta is 19 for 19 in her brilliant career and she will try and retire a perfect 20 for 20. She will be trying to win the Classic for the second straight year. She will start out of post position #8 on Saturday and be ridden by Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith.
There are three main threats to
Zenyatta in the Classic. Blame is the second choice at 9-2 and will start from post position #5. Quality Road is 5-1 and starts from the rail while Lookin at Lucky is 6-1 and starts from the outside in post position #12.
Blame has won five of his last six races and he has jockey Garrett Gomez in the irons. He looks better than he ever has and comes out of Claiborne Farms which is celebrating its 100th anniversary.
Quality Road is a horse that has done very little wrong in his career. He has never finished out of the money and he is trained by the best trainer in the world, Todd Pletcher. Lookin at Lucky has lost three times in his career but in each of those losses he got into trouble. If he gets a good trip he should be right there.
The favorite in the Classic is not a guarantee to win. In fact…
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Zenyatta has been the favorite in her last nine races and she’s never gone farther than a mile and an eighth. Zenyatta likes Santa Anita’s main track and it looks like she actually might thrive going a mile and a quarter.
recently won the Grade 2, $150,000 Jerome Handicap for 3-year-olds by 1 1/4 lengths at Belmont Park is owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum’s Godolphin Stable. Girolamo won for the third time in as many starts this year and fourth from six lifetime races.
Opening odds have listed Zenyatta as the favorite with 7/2 odds. Other favorites include Rip Van Winkle (5/1) and Summer Bird (6/1).

violence, anything like that,” Dr. Harry Edwards said. ”You’re not going to get that with Terrell. What you are going to get is the kind of behavior on the field that his generation celebrates. It’s cultural. You’re not going to change it.”


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A higher percentage of horses train better over it than run well over it,” trainer Steve Asmussen said.
the next day that will have nine races ranging from the 6 furlong Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) to the new 1 ½ mile Breeders’ Cup Marathon.
”She is certainly the best horse I have ever trained.”
and is arguably the top contender to win the 2008 Breeders’ Cup. Trained by Richard E. Dutrow, last year’s Kentucky Derby champion was the second winner in history to break from post position 20. This colt is also the first horse since 1915 to win the Derby after only three lifetime starts.