Zenyatta triumphant in 2009 debut

[@BeveC21E]

What can anyone say? When you see greatness, you see the Creators hand. We can only say thank You. We're blessed to have seen her race. May she graze peacefully ever after! Thank you, Zenyatta. We love you and thanx for all the joy you've given us! 💕 🇺🇸

[@DetelinaGeorgieva-k1z]

Thank you for good moments jockeys sport and Good Luck Mike Smith and horse Zenyatta. This is Original horse Leader USA

[@JoannaNunescurto]

I live to watch horse race on tv! I love horses they are loveable; caring; warmth; i Dwtest Animals Have Rights Also! Animals Have Rights Also! It is a 😎 Day! Autumn November 2024! Zwnyatta 6 yeats old Tampa Florida! You are a championship! She loves to shake it before racing! 😢😢😢😢😢

[@ablam8]

She played with them. Always nice to have a good horse. Gives you goose bumps watching them come home.

[@Tammicat21]

I couldn't love her more!!!! Most of the videos make me cry because she is just so very wonderful. She has it all! The prance leaves me speechless... God bless her and keep her safe always. Merry Christmas horse lovers!

[@audioslavery]

Thanks for posting this, I was there today just to see her but unfortunately was on the wrong side of the paddock when they saddled her up. But WOW, it was great to see Mike Smith just hand ride her by the field.

[@SHENworks]

What a joy to watch again as Z takes the lead with her ears forward!

[@txhorsefan]

Thanks for the great video! I missed the race yesterday and was so disappointed that it had already gone off. How wonderful that the great race mare won our hearts again. Thank you~

[@lengua92]

She's the best and she knows that!

[@unseelie63]

She romped home,ears pricked.What a girl!

[@binaryg]

Zenyatta! What a Great Horse. She's such a showboat and I love the way Mike Smith lets her prance and how he shows her off. I would too. Who doesn't love a horse that bides her time and does what has to be done when she's ready. Those other fillies must have Zenyatta Envy. Thanks for this post. Excellent work.

[@Starbuc1]

She does know she's the best and she loves it. She prance's and show's off, her trademark. That's why I love her. Then she hits the track and backs it up. She is both show and go. A rare find indeed.

[@Venckman]

Love that strut of hers. She's the Queen and she knows it.

[@avagoodava]

I'm not sure what's more interesting...watching her in the post parade or watching her race... Congratulations!

[@sheilamacpherson4948]

She's so beautiful.

[@sandhorse1]

What a joy to watch!

[@lovemusic794]

She is absolutely magnificent and big!

[@RockStarArtists]

The best filly ever and top 5 of all time.

[@butchjones1690]

Perfection

[@lori5455]

The Whole Package!! Get tingles watching her surge to the front and win, Always ran the same.

[@ZenyattaLuver]

She Is Just Amazing Too Watch I Love It How She Prances Around Lol. Shes The Prettiest And Most Talented Mare Ive Ever Seen Anyway.

[@derekmitchell8904]

If you look at zenyatta being 6yrs of age and being a female horse ,and also giving away at least 10 to 18 length at the start of almost every race she participated in ,I think one will have to come to the conclusion that she should be the GREATEST ATHLETE EVER

[@debraenderle4737]

That was pretty, and she wasn't even breathing hard at the end. Talk about humiliating your opponents!

[@thevmanvj]

Super impressive in her debut… Zenyatta barely even took a deep breath. She is such a big girl!… 17.2 hands ..... She is bigger than most males. She’s also as gentle as a lamb. Ann Moss said....“She’s gentle because she chooses to be.”

[@susandolan9543]

Did anyone notice that Zenyatta was doing The Spanish Walk when she first set foot on the track?

[@sissyplatt2715]

Such a ❤️Love 🐎👏👏👏😁❤️❤️❤️

[@angiet3535]

Love it!!! She pulled a Secretariat Preakness move 😁

[@michellewhite349]

I would love to see Zenyatta bred to American Pharoah. That would be one to watch for sure!

[@michaelpflug7305]

Zenyatta/ Mind your biscuits might be a good combo. I’d like to see that.

[@redsox1079]

love your videos Larry...."would everybody just move please", LOL! thanks for giving those of us not fortunate to be there a glimpse (just over 6,000 though?!?!?! my local Tampa Bay Downs would have been busting at the seams if a horse like Z and Life is Sweet were there). Hope She's Cheeky is well!!

[@larryzapeye]

i really believe she enjoys who and what she is...looked sooooo much better in the flesh this time around...an awesome individual

[@janethedberg9581]

Beautiful horse!

[@kwgrid]

I was so glad Z beat out Blame for Horse of the Year for 2010. He just got lucky in the 2010 BCC due to a traffic snarl, pure and simple, while he had a perfect trip. Even Gomez said he wouldn't want a rematch. Z was also awarded the first ever Vox Populi award established by Penny Chenery, Secretariat's owner, for the racehorse that wins the heart of the people. Z certainly did do that!! ♥ What a doll!

[@donaldcassidy1592]

Bad ride in BCC! Not GOAT fault.

[@kwgrid]

@@donaldcassidy1592 Agree. Mike Smith blamed himself.

[@keybender]

Love this Joe Talamo quote from the DRF "From his vantage point aboard Allicansayis Wow in the Grade 2 Milady Handicap at Hollywood Park last month, jockey Joe Talamo had a first-hand view of the most fascinating sight in California racing this year. The champion female Zenyatta was cruising right by Talamo's filly. "You look over and see this monster with her ears out," Talamo said. " Monster with her ears out - LOL

[@patteel]

Zenyatta reminds me of her Great-uncle, The Mighty Forego.

[@keybender]

Yes, definitely "all that" and more. You're lucky she's still racing as a 5yo, most owners would have had her "cranking out foals" already. Still broodmare isn't such a bad life and the horses are very well taken care of. Much softer life in the pasture than racing. Besides wouldn't you love to see a 17 hand Curlin-Zenyatta colt prepping for the derby in a few years?

[@larryzapeye]

love your passion...would love to see a match race in September between Rachek and Zenyatta at Belmont Park 1 mile & 1/8...would be epic

[@jyee2217]

Nice memory. When did jockey change to mike smith?

[@kwgrid]

The Apple Blossom. David Flores rode her for her first 3 races, but had another commitment when it came time for the Apple Blossom. John Shirreffs told Mike that if he won, he could stay on as her jockey.

[@rosemaramgio7284]

She was such a bad ass!!

[@Juan-xn2nt]

This girl looks like she could win some more races in the future

[@diegobautistacova4486]

genial la campeona, una belleza, que debut para mantenerse asi 19 carreras

[@janetgallo5720]

Best filly ever. I always pictured her and secretariat getting married.

[@winstonybarrra7868]

Empieza la Leyenda !

[@thegattigal]

Riding her must be like driving a Ferrari. Hit the gas and she's GONE!

[@brianprice3263]

So noble! Alexander the great would have rode such a horse!

[@greyhorseazeri]

Click. Click click. Click click click. Takin' pictures of the bestest hoss in the country. ;-) Rachel Alexandra, eat your heart out.

[@julieenslow5915]

Is she a descendant of Secretariat? I mean, she runs just the way he did. Stays at the back until she is ready then turns on the after burners and runs past them on the outside at a turn, goes to the front and keeps going.

[@OfficialMuffiin]

Secretariat wasnt the first horse to be a closer..

[@lazylesbian3544]

Princequillo is in both of the bloodlines.. thats the only way they're related

[@julieenslow5915]

No matter. Zendaya is unique.

[@lazylesbian3544]

@@julieenslow5915 Yea. I love both Her (Zenyatta) and Secretariat

[@wendynoto9782]

They make a good pair with me I thought the same thing

[@Juan-xn2nt]

Lol she looks like she's making fun of the other horse that's holding her XD

[@Chariset]

She was in step with the pony! Was she doing that on purpose?

[@ThoroughbredGirl96]

She prances, she knows shes the best

[@ryleigh8942]

Lmao, the beginning is so cute

[@shabba.uandre7577]

Pop ppppp

[@sheilamacpherson4948]

8 thought someone else rode her on her debut. Victor Espinosa. Mike didn't ride her.

[@cindyandyogi]

reminds me of forego size style is she really related?

[@qhsperson]

Not directly since Forego was a gelding. They both have Forli in their lines, but I wouldn't call it overly significant.

[@ScottWilson-mg1rm]

coo!

[@xiaocui01]

She does remind me a lot of Big Red.

[@wendynoto9782]

Me too

[@watchgoose]

"debut" means "first time out".

[@derekmitchell8904]

Zenyatta in 2009 would have beaten any race horse, she actually was 2 seconds faster than in 2010 breeders cup classic,

[@dhom100]

lol she stuck her tongue out at the camera.