She's retired. So why is she getting so much press while we should be looking to Uncle Mo and others to take over the spotlight? Why are we not talking about the Triple Crown trail? Sometimes it's just hard to let go of a hero.
Zenyatta, like Seabiscuit and Secretariat, showed up during hard times to take our minds off ourselves. One loss doesn't dim her heart stopping wins. How many did Seabiscuit and Secretariat lose? She gave racing a shot in the arm this year and made us realize what has been really plaguing this sport: lack of heroes to worship by the general public. Why? Because the sport is too busy bickering amongst itself in regional and local squabbles to forge a national identity that can be promoted by a good publicist.
In a world of sports heroes who have fallen because of infidelity and drugs we have one, and only one, who failed, only once, in honest competition. Casey was at bat. Casey was drug and sin free. Casey struck out honestly. Only in horse racing can you say that now days. Zenyatta was an honest hero. The only one out there.
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