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The most amazing part of Zenyatta is that when she hits her highest gear, she appears to be massively better than other very good horses. Even in this last race, the last 1/8th was in 11.61 (impressive on its own), but I'd be willing to bet she ran the last 16th at an even faster rate than that when all seemed lost. Final times and margins of victory simply cannot measure what she's capable of when she needs to call upon reserves that other horses don't have. As terrific a mare as St. Trinians is and as excellent as she ran in the Vanity, IMO the gap between them is larger than the margin.
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