Zenyatta Isn't Perfect After All, 'Greatest Racehorse' Loses Breeders Cup By A Nose
Posted on Nov 06, 2010 @ 03:09PM
Oprah named her one of the most powerful females in America and the fashion magazine W did a spread on her. She was heavily favored to win Saturday's Breeders Cup Classic, but Zenyatta lost by inches.
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Tall, dark, beautiful and unpretentious as she sips Guinness beer, Zenyatta had never lost a race until the Breeders Cup.
"It's as if you're in a Ferrari on the freeway," her jockey Mike Smith said. "And everyone else just isn't."
Despite Saturday's emotional loss, Zenyatta is truly a rags to riches story.
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Her owners, music mogul Jerry Moss and his wife Ann, purchased Zenyatta for a "mare" $60,000 at the 2005 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. She was ridiculously inexpensive because she suffered a form of ringworm. They named her for The Police album Zenyatta Mondatta. Moss had signed the group, led by Sting, to his A&M Records, which Moss owns with Herb Albert.
She was born the first day in April of 2004 but didn't begin racing until 2007 after being schooled at the Mayberry Farm in Florida.
Queen Z is no stranger to the Internet and even loves to network online. Her Facebook group has more than 30,000 Friends and she has her own Twitter account too.
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She's even a YouTube sensation with countless videos, including some of her best victories, goose-stepping dance struts and beer-drinking clips (Her trainer told 60 Minutes Sunday how much she loves Guinness).
She's still the greatest racing mare of all time. Secretariat can't say that!
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The Daily Juice
Apr 14, 2012 @ 20:13
A horse is a horse of course
Posted Sun, 11/07/2010 - 6:44pm
I am devastated...As a Brown Equestrian Team Alumni - we horse lovers around the New England area were hoping she would win the cup. She has a large fan base on the east coast. Please do not burn her out so she can go to the Kentucky Derby
Posted Sun, 11/07/2010 - 5:19pm
Another yard & she would have pulled ahead...still she is GREAT & so beautiful. Nice article
Posted Sun, 11/07/2010 - 9:58am
what a NON-story.
The horse didn't compete in the triple crown so it doesn't deserve to be mentioned among the greats like Affirmed, Seattle Slew and Secretariat.
Posted Sun, 11/07/2010 - 9:42am
You know painfully little about this sport, so why don't you focus on the riveting "news" of celebrity vacations. She is undoubtedly one of the greatest runners in history & there's no way to intelligently debate otherwise.
Posted Sun, 11/07/2010 - 5:12pm
She is absolutely beautiful. I don't think I've seen a female that was sooo tall. I think that is what makes her stand out.
Posted Sun, 11/07/2010 - 4:06am
She has got to be the most beautiful horse I have ever seen. Elegant, brave, she will go down in history either way.
Posted Sun, 11/07/2010 - 1:21am