Could Zilkha Be the One? Zenyatta's Youngest Daughter Shows Promise at Shirreffs Barn

[@suerue7353]

Zentatta's runs were legendary...last to first 19 times....history will be hard pressed to top those finishes. Goood luck to her babies!

[@lespangen]

Did not know she bucked exercise riders off early in her career 😬 hope Zilka makes a race horse Trust she’ll stay in Sherriiff’s barn if so since he took such great care of Queen Z😬❤️❤️

[@kwgrid]

@@lespangen She was a real hand full. :D

[@kwgrid]

I love what John Shirreffs said one time about training Zenyatta. "Once we learned how she wanted to be trained, everything went well." (paraphrasing)

[@cheacosta809]

I hope this daughter of Zenyatta does really great I'm praying for her cuz I would love to see Zenyatta having another winter I so miss the yotta miss her so much it would be great to see her daughter followed her footsteps she looks just like her mother

[@cheacosta809]

And if you look at the top of her Blaze it's the same exact Blaze her mother's the top half she doesn't have the bottom stripe of the blaze just the top

[@SoaringSpirit1111]

She is gorgeous and the walk on her ! Wow look out. Safe travels 🙏💖

[@christinaj.farrell7331]

Good luck Baby Z! You're wonderful no matter what! 😍🐎🍀🗽🦊🎆

[@aracellyfrancisco99]

Zilkha is beautiful liked her mother,happy to see her daughter,thank you for sharing

[@ThoroughbredDailyNews]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@thomasbuczkowski7307]

When mares are pre-raced heavily it shows up in the foals.Lack of growth is one sign. Makes people in the know wonder if Zenyatta was great or if her pre race was!

[@lespangen]

@@thomasbuczkowski7307 Sherrifs waited with Zenyatta until he felt she was physically ready if that is relevant to your observation: ( there’s a 60 Minutes program about Zenyatta’s background)

[@lespangen]

Zenyatta was a great race horse

[@thomasbuczkowski7307]

@@lespangen She excelled during the EPO days of horseracing.That is a cancer drug that sends the sends the red blood cells through the roof. Read about it, you will be enlightened!

[@challloyd215]

Great video! Zilkha is gorgeous and I'm glad she didnt bite Mr. Sherriffs!!! I wish them both all the luck in the world. Beautiful filly and what a nice guy.

[@suzanneyoung8011]

Whether her fillies can run or not, here's hoping they will make great broodmares. Sometimes greatness skips a generation.

[@cratorcic9362]

The daughters of Dancethruthedawn are a good example of this. Not great at racing but excellent broodmares

[@bishlap]

true, but an expensive proposition... no one wants to wait a generation for their little baby to come to fruition. We al know, it's a MONEY Game, and that's what talks.

[@cratorcic9362]

@@bishlap The daughter of a champion filly is valuable as a broodmare prospect, even if she herself doesn’t perform tremendously. While money talks, patience also can pay even greater dividends monetarily down the road.

[@suzanneyoung8011]

@@bishlap Not so with the Mosses who own Zenyatta. They already have plenty of money. They are owner/breeders who will no doubt hold onto her fillies to put them into their broodmare band. They are not commercial breeders. They breed to race their own.

[@bishlap]

@@suzanneyoung8011 Yes, I'm aware, I have a gut feeling Zenny is a freak all her own and will not be passing on that massive frame and talent on to another generation. No biggie to me, we've already got superstars by the year coming on strong, other than the obvious studs. For instance, Who knew Quality Road would produce so well... even Uncle Mo who was a real talent, has produced black type all over the world. Yes, would be nice to see another Zenyatta, but that's the way it goes... would have been even nicer had RUFFIAN survived, that was the best filly ever.

[@hannahwebb4846]

The expression I've been trying to think of for finding just the right stallion for Zenyatta, a perfect mate for a perfect jewel!

[@dentonboothe5322]

U are so right bro!!!

[@hannahwebb4846]

@@dentonboothe5322 I'm not a bro, I'm a sis.

[@dentonboothe5322]

@@hannahwebb4846 ok but u are still right

[@meagancobb1417]

Gun Runner

[@Hidingout171]

Yeah they breeding her to different studs but Msybe Candy Ride will be the one. Gun Runner could be a great stud for her.

[@lindaosika7648]

Would love it to see her win first time out.

[@jencollins3124]

@pat mckinzie yes let buffet drug them up good thought

[@OfficialMuffiin]

@pat mckinzie baffert shouldn't be allowed to train a horse ever again.

[@brandonaldaymachuse6669]

Zenyatta was such a beautiful horse

[@kwgrid]

She was the whole package! Gorgeous, huge, personality, and talent out the wazoo! I'll always remember the call, "And here comes the Amazon!" :D

[@adammiller6606]

Thank you for sharing. Anything Zenyata related and I’m tuning in. ☮️🏇

[@ThoroughbredDailyNews]

Thanks for watching!

[@penelopelopez8296]

Zenny lost a foal to some accident several years back that would have been a monster on the track. That’s the one that would have been her greatest but we’ll never know.

[@richardk6196]

Did you get a chance to see her?

[@FullmetalGirl94]

I still think about Princess Z sometimes. The day I heard about her sudden passing was beyond devastating

[@hannahwebb4846]

@@FullmetalGirl94 I think Baby Z was killed in a pasture accident.

[@FullmetalGirl94]

@@hannahwebb4846 Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what I remember hearing

[@kwgrid]

Nicknamed 'Princess Z', a War Front filly. She was gorgeous and had that 'look' of a potential champion. I still have a screen-capture picture of her. I cried like a baby when she had her accident and had to be put down. As far as I know, no details were ever published. Not that it matters, I suppose.

[@nayrod4529]

It would be nice to see one baby from Z to win!

[@janetgallo5720]

I love Zenyatta

[@eg6cvchatch]

I still have my 2009 girl power poster too!

[@texasgal3903]

Just like Secretariat stood alone, none of his fillies or colts could touch his speed and greatness, so it is with Zenyatta.

[@LauraJdogmom]

That is not really true. Secretariat did not reproduce himself, but he sired several excellent horses: Lady's Secret, Risen Star, Tinner's Way, Kingston Rule, Pancho Villa, General Assembly, and others. He didn't leave a sire line to speak of, but he became a premier broodmare sire. Of course, as a stallion he would have far more offspring than any mare, so a much better chance of having good offspring. Sadly, Z has been unsuccessful as a broodmare, although we will never know what would have happened if either of her War Front offspring had lived. Z Princess looked really good by all reports.

[@WickedAwesomeGardening]

He was an amazing broodmares sire as well. His daughters turned out amazing runners.

[@juliehenry6421]

Same stride as mom has - looks good

[@karenharris3183]

well here we hope to I been wait for one fol to be like Zenyatta

[@terriholliday8038]

She is so cute!! They always have a big personality. My Jake is by Street Boss and he has such a big personality !

[@mitzibud6908]

Fingers-crossed!!

[@DoubleDogDare54]

Big tomboys like Zenyatta typically don't make good broodmares. I never expected her to produce anything of note, and that's what happened. The biggest surprise was what a little squirt Zellda was. Zenyatta is big enough to pull a beer wagon, so Zellda coming out the size of a BLM mustang was unexpected.

[@montanawarren8462]

Makes you wonder if she was a twin and they pinch the other one off?

[@DoubleDogDare54]

@@montanawarren8462 When they pinch one off it is done at such an early stage the "keeper" develops as a singleton. I have no idea why Zellda was the size of a Chihuahua. It had to be genetic. As such, it was just one of those things. Wouldn't have necessarily completely prevented her from being successful on the track - Dark Mirage only weighed 700 lbs, but was champion 3yo filly of '68 and in the HOF - but made it unlikely. So not racing her made sense.

[@montanawarren8462]

@@DoubleDogDare54 but what gets me is how do they know which one to pinch off? They're not God & if they are equal size how do you know which ones better than the other? Once you have a set of twins you're really alert to that situation let me clue you! And I had an old Standardbred vet tell me that at twin mare has a 85% higher chance than a regular Mare of throwing a champion! In my experience with twin fillies is they produce larger hearts and larger lung size...if you read the book about Northern Dancer with both his parents being very small I would say they were both Twins and then he passes it on the large heart and a large Lukeng size which made him a champion in the breeding program that's why they go around measuring hearts at The Yearling sales I believe... I think it was Funny Cide that had a larger heart and larger Lungs along with Secretariat.

[@DoubleDogDare54]

@@montanawarren8462 They simply pick one and eliminate the other. It is a crapshoot, same as when you breed and get one to start with. But if you let them both develop, chances are better than good the pregnancy will abort, the foals will be premature and likely not survive, and if they do survive, not amount to much. Better to pinch one off and hope for the best. Prior to ultrasound it was impossible to know if a mare conceived twins until either they aborted or are born dead or alive. After ultrasound became standard it was discovered a fair number of pregnancies in horses start as twins, but one of them naturally disappears on its own. The "X Factor"/Large Heart Gene is a theory believed by some, disputed by others. In the 20th century there were four stallions that allegedly passed "X" on to their filly foals - Princequillo, War Admiral, Blue Larkspur and Mahmoud. If you believe the gene exists, there are probably others. If you don't believe it exists, it is serendipity that determines if a horse is born with a larger heart than normal.

[@montanawarren8462]

@@DoubleDogDare54 I've had so much damn bad luck using veterinarians on my horses I pretty much don't use them anymore and when I raced my horses they were the only horses on the whole racing program with no drugs in them! Of course I usually make my money gambling, so they pay off big when they win.... thank God!!!!

[@poisonapple6138]

Candy Ride 🔥❤

[@lucindra766]

I honestly don't care if people come after me for saying this but, I don't care if they say they love their horses and treat them like "royalty" no horse would want to go through the amounts of pain that these race horses tolerate.

[@hobimancing2555]

Zenyata is the best

[@rosemaramgio7284]

She's got her mom's personality. And her dance moves 😂

[@Ever_Since_Never]

Does anyone know if this little one will be her last offspring? I know she must be 18 or 19 by now.

[@mandalay117]

Zenyatta was bred to War Front for a 2023 foal!

[@MegaPerson012345]

Really? That is great news

[@monicap1717]

"Girl Power" needs to be tried for again 💞🤠

[@georgiagonzales3769]

Gorgeous ❤️

[@hannahwebb4846]

I guess I am not surprised that Zenyatta, as big and powerful as she was could not quite make it as a producer of horses that can run no matter who she was bred to. As she got older, she started absorbing her foals, so hoping her owners realize that Zenyatta may have been a great racehorse but for reasons we don't know, is the opposite of being a blue hen. Her half-sister Winx, a great race mare who regularly beat the boys lost her first foal. No news on how she is doing after having been rebred.

[@penelopelopez8296]

She needs to be bred to a European sprinter….a stallion with European bloodlines throughout the pedigree. American breeders need to get back to those European bloodlines.

[@hannahwebb4846]

Zenyatta is getting up in age and might not have very many more years as a viable broodmare. As it is, the last few years, she has not even carried a foal to full term.

[@hannahwebb4846]

@pat mckinzie I am trying to even remember the first stallion she was bred to, and I think it was one owned by HRH from Dubai. That was one breeding that appalled me since it was an absurd choice for Z. Yes, they should try the Storm Cat line for her. You are right, it isn't good enough to just breed the best to the best. There is that just right cross for Z, and I am afraid her biological clock will run out before they find that just right stallion for her.

[@rebecca94503]

Winx is not her half sister.

[@OfficialMuffiin]

Zenyattas never absorbed a foal, she aborted an Into Mischief foal and had a Candy Ride stillbirth last year. Different from absorption.

[@danielleharrison5765]

I have Zenyatta and her first Colt Cozmic One as Breyer models horses

[@TheDaragh]

I wish they didn't push them so hard so young.

[@rosscardenas6636]

authentic or into mischief next.

[@janeraymond5214]

No, shes not going to "be the one", because the owner & trainer wont put her where she can break her maiden. Just like they did Coz, Zi, Zell.

[@AuthenticMage]

Honestly the only way coz and Ziconic were going to break the maiden was a claimer which wasn’t an option because someone would have claimed them. Zellda did not have the right body type to race

[@gailjordan9250]

Z babies. Love them all.

[@terriholliday8038]

She is a cutie. A happy girl!

[@kevinmarshall4215]

Please Please take zen to run happy

[@EmJ.806]

She’s 2 years old why are you already riding and training her for the track?! Her bones are fused yet!

[@rachelalmondstorm1625]

Pretty much all racehorses are trained and raced at two years old,

[@EmJ.806]

@@rachelalmondstorm1625 that’s so sad

[@dani-eh3tf]

thats racing

[@Sharfox52]

@@EmJ.806 End of day it's a business

[@lucindra766]

Exactly, they push them so hard when their so young which is why lots end up breaking bones.

[@Kitty-we6il]

shes so cute!!

[@truthboy1464]

The best horse arguably.... I would try other direction on her breeding program..... great horses do not tend to bring the same....

[@whatsinaname23]

Hasn't shown anything :'( take a hint and turn them out longer. They are too underdeveloped to be broke and go to training. You have one last foal. Make good of it. To keep repeating the same pattern has resulted in total failure...

[@montanawarren8462]

I thought Steve Willard was the one who galloped Zenyatta he got me a $96 payoff on a Judgeable filly...."I'll Be the Judge"!

[@caseG80]

He did ride her maybe John meant early on as a two year old ect.

[@MsLinjohn]

the Z name is not goodluck name after the dad z is pnly for the queen mother

[@karenharris3183]

oops foal sorry

[@critcalreader4160]

The woman SHOULD NOT have been standing on the statue of Zenyatta. That would never have happened several generations ago. It shows how rude, how unthinking, how disrespectful people are these days. IT IS A COMMEMORATIVE STATUE, A TRIBUTE TO GREATNESS. It is not a jungle gym set. Disgusting.

[@michellenainkristinabusch1221]

Zenyatta the better racehorse, Rachel Alexandra is the better broodmare, based on records

[@lisanadinebaker5179]

???? Rachel Alexandra has produced 2 foals, one stakes winner, and may never be bred again due to foaling injuries. That doesn't exactly make her a Blue Hen or some exalted broodmare.

[@kwgrid]

Zenyatta will likely never produce a foal that inherits her size and talents because owners won't breed her to a large well-bred thoroughbred to avoid foaling size issues. Seems to me that she's had foaling issues anyway. I'm hoping Zilkha proves to be a winner. She's certainly a pretty filly.

[@LauraJdogmom]

She hasn't had delivery issues' she foals easily. She has had trouble holding on to pregnancies. The one War Front colt was a meconium baby and died within days of delivery, but I am not sure that that counts as a foaling issue.

[@AuthenticMage]

They’d need to breed to smaller stallions to avoid a foal that is too large…

[@melodybowser3524]

Mares determine the size of the foal

[@DustyHoney]

It’s sad that they’re doomed to the same fate as their mother.

[@AuthenticMage]

As she hasn’t even worked in 60 days I’d say no

[@bdctrans70]

Ugh, using Shirreff's again? Good grief, he messed up all the others and never tapped into their potential. He kept training all her offspring like he trained her. I would be surprised if Zilkha run her first race before her 2 year old year is over.

[@titanbuck7]

She has incorrect biomechanics in her left stifle. Have a chiropractor work on her and see if it can be fixed...if not...sigh....

[@donnarichardson7214]

Alas, another dud. Not a single start, much less place.

[@zencronimax7636]

Yea it looks like they’ve just been doing workouts on her for years

[@KSJen]

Hope all racehorses gets to live to atleast 25!

[@fugetabouit663]

Why they keep giving the babies to a 1 hit wonder trainer? Give the horse to a Chad brown, D'Amato, Sadler...no wonder they don't produce under Sherriff.

[@marksvalow1834]

A legenda di Pamelarioss.Uno snowquen hè u mo idolu. Hè a persona chì aspiru à esseo, hè a mo luce di ghjornu

[@karparik07]

I have already lost hope that she is debating.. If they protect Zenyata's daughter so much, then why train her at all?

[@challloyd215]

I wonder about Rachel's daughter since they stopped RA from breeding. And while she is retired, I hope Zilkha can have some kind of racing career before she carries on the bloodlines.

[@karparik07]

@@challloyd215 Every month I doubt it more and more because in every video when she is talked about she is constantly praised as a future race horse but the lack of a debut makes me think that she has the same future as her older sister. if that's the case, then why was there any need to train her at all. They could immediately send her to the broodmare team.

[@bigyanjithuidrom1475]

She is small