OMG she's absolutely beautiful!!! watching that gave me chills!
i haven't been following her at all and haven't been to a race in years,
but i'll be watching saturday for sure!
had horses growing up... my sisters both had very expensive well trained horses, silver saddles, fancy clothes, hats, boots and ribbons up the wazoo!
mine was a quarter horse/thoroughbred, zero training, hated saddles probably couldn't have won a ribbon if his life depended on it. but i never had any intention of finding out... we were a perfect match! barefoot and bareback, he could run like the wind, jump the fence to any property we weren't allowed on... including the golf course where you were fined for every hoof print left in the grass..... if they could catch you.
seeing a horse like Zenyetta run.... you can tell she's running and winning because she wants to. the real beauty is in her desire not the win... but i sure would love to see her win saturday!
i watch that video several time to see if i could tell if the jockey used the crop on her. i saw him carrying one, but never saw him use it! did you notice how frantically the other jockies took the crop to their horses as Zenyetta blew past them!!!!!
a thing of beauty indeed!