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Zenyatta (foaled April 1, 2004) is a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Breeders' Cup Classic and Breeders' Cup Distaff and 19 of her 20 starts. She was the 2010 American Horse of the Year , and Champion Older Female in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
The 2009 Breeders' Cup Classic was the 26th running of the Breeders' Cup Classic, part of the 2009 Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships program. It was run on November 7, 2009, at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California with a purse of $5,000,000.
Zenyatta's 2009 Breeders' Cup Classic win and her 19-1 record established her as one of the greatest ... she had entered the bidding ring with a skin rash. The size of horse was a plus for ...
Measurement October at age of 2 October at age of 3 Height (at withers) 16 3 ⁄ 4 hands (64.75 inches, 164 cm) 16.1 1 ⁄ 2 hands (65.5 inches, 166 cm) Point of shoulder to point of shoulder (chest width) 16 inches (41 cm) 16.5 inches (42 cm) Girth (around center of gravity) 74 inches (188 cm) 76 inches (193 cm) Withers to point of shoulder
The Zenyatta Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares, age three and older the distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt scheduled annually in September at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. The event currently carries a purse of $200,000.
In 2012, a lifesize bronze of Zenyatta was unveiled prior to the running of the race renamed in her honor. [18] Since 1950, Santa Anita Park has annually presented the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award to a rider who demonstrates high standards of personal and professional conduct, on and off the racetrack.
Zenyatta, the only mare to win the Breeders' Cup Classic, one of the few horses to win two different Breeders Cup events, one of the leading U.S. money earners, the first horse to break Cigar's 16 consecutive win streak, and the horse that broke the world record set by Rock of Gibraltar for consecutive Grade/Group I victories (later surpassed ...
Zenyatta (turquoise cap) saves ground around the far turn. The Breeders' Cup Classic was the most anticipated race of the 2009 event, especially because of the decision by the connections of mare Zenyatta to enter her against male horses in the race instead of attempting to defend her title in the Ladies Classic (aka the Distaff).