No one beats the queen on her home track, or anywhere else for that matter.
Zenyatta improved to 19-0 in her excellent, using the usual come-from-behind move to bypass the switch works in the front stretch and win the $ 250,000 Lady Secret Stakes on Saturday at Hollywood Park.
There was a horse 6 years) with a length of half, put her contacts in panic and a lot of the crowd before the rally under the late Hall of Fame Knight Mike Smith.
Seem to know where he is in the wire and she likes to make it a little dramatic, “he said.” It’s just incredible. ”
Trainer John Shirreffs bombed his rolled up program race against his chest after Zenyatta sailed across the finish line in a race January 1 to 16 miles, which won for the third year in a row.
It is the heart stopper in so many ways, “he said, smiling.
Held for the exercise of Zenyatta rider Steve Willard and his right hand on his heart, and a smile on his face relieved.
I’m sweating a lot. Oh my God! It’s just wonderful, “said Dottie Ingordo Shirreffs, race director for owners Jerry and Ann Moss, and the wife of Shirreffs.
Zenyatta was the final prep before heading to Churchill Downs next month to take on the boys again in the $ 5 million Breeders Cup Classic, won last year.
I’m jazzed and I’m ready, “said Jerry Moss of classicism.
Zenyatta ran the distance on the synthetic Cushion Track in 1:42.97. She was sent off in the 1-9 odds, $ 2.20 and $ 2.10. There was no show betting because of the five horse field.
Has a lot of heart, “said Shirreffs.” She digs down every time. ”
Zenyatta certainly need to bear down. Valley of the Moon de French, trained by Bob Baffert, many of the forms with the right behind the switch. Zenyatta Smith settled off the rail, where they were eight lengths behind in the early going.
I would like to see her win by a little more, but this is the only way they manage, “said Jerry Moss. It knows where the wire is.”
Zenyatta Smith swung to the outside to convert the second before to go out on a larger scale in an extension of the switch to take aim and Persia Alonso Quinonez.
I thought I was home free in the eighth pole, “said Quinonez.” I could not see Zenyatta next I was in my own riding. We lost, but it was exciting. ”
Switch back $ 2.60.
I have been on the fingers of the feet of the barn every morning, saying, I know we’re going to give them a scare, “said trainer John Sadler switch.” To run the second best horse in the world and one of the greats of all time is huge. I’m very, very excited. ”
Completion of the Moon de French chick fast and demons in the dead heat for the third, another four lengths behind the 4.3. Emmy Darling was fifth. And was scratched Rinterval, Zenyatta, who lost to the neck last month at Del Mar, by the veterinarian in the ring before the race.
Victory, worth $ 150,000, made Zenyatta’s career earnings leader female horse. Exceeded the total of $ 6404580 with the old mark of $ 6334296 set by the Council and the Liga, who retired in 2006.
Zenyatta has won the eighth in the garden of Hollywood, more than any other path.
“They do some amazing things in the last sixteenth of a mile,” said Shirreffs. “You must be a huge heart.”
There was a lot of love from the crowds who lined up being saddled with five deep in the Bekaa Valley View Zenyatta around the ring before the race. Female fans held banners reading “Go Zenyatta” and “Queen Zenyatta”.
“The fans really prove what I feel at home,” said Shirreffs low-key. “I can not really showed those feelings, so I really enjoy them to go into that because this is exactly how I feel.
Zenyatta will not disappoint, and put on a show with the usual pre-race goose walk) around the ring as the crowd cheered her and Smith. Among her fans was a high-level interface and Chenery, the owner of the winner Secretariat Triple Crown; actress Bo Derek, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
After that, I stopped Smith Zenyatta in the upper part of the platform to verify the crowd of 25,837, and then guided to the middle of the road, where she was bathing in a standing ovation.
Held in his right index finger, which refers to any. 1.
“It’s just amazing,” he said.
Zenyatta’s victory overshadowed by the other three Grade 1 Breeders Cup preparations on Saturday.
_ Hibaayeb won the $ 250,000 Yellow Ribbon Stakes by a length of more than Ireland, was born and moved up. Suffer from Rafael Bejarano and Britain, which grew Hibaayeb ran 11 / 4 miles on grass in 2:00:44 and paid $ 8.60 to win. The warning was Roma third.
Won _ Jaycito and Smith $ 250,000 Norfolk Stakes by a length of more than taste good. Ran January 1 to 16 miles in 1:44:17 and paid $ 8.40 to win.
_ Richard Kidd gathered, trained by Baffert and is led by Quinonez, earning $ 250,000 Goodwood Stakes by half the time. Included two-time winner of the Pacific Classic January 1 to 8 miles in 1:49:18. Crown of Thorns and the second and third phone Dakota
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