Good Morning Everyone,
It is so much fun to be starting a wonderful new week!
David has been in Florida visiting Mayberry Training Center looking at the newly turned 2 year olds for the last several days. He is returning to KY soon and will be able to spend time with ME again. (My Team is always on the job monitoring ALL of us…no matter what state we are residing in at the time.) Sarah had a nice weekend off…so well-deserved…and she is back on the job today. Charles and Donna and all of my Lane’s End Friends have been here with me….sharing all of the current news.
MY CA TEAM is doing well and working away with all of my Barn 55 Friends. It is so much FUN when you LOVE WHAT YOU DO…and they are having a GREAT TIME…enjoying ALL OF US!
Recently, I showed you the prototype for Nina Kaiser’s BRONZE of ME! Well, Nina and her friend, Karol BalIard, did a YOU TUBE showing how I MEASURED UP! As I’ve mentioned before, NINA spent a great deal of time doing ALL of my measurements and taking photos of every single INCH of me before I left CA! As a sculptor, she wanted to be completely prepared to be able to recreate MY BODY IN PERFECT SCALE.
In the YOU TUBE…you see her doing some of this ‘homework’ for my BRONZE. She sent it to Dottie this morning for all of us to share!
YouTube Video
Enjoy…and the song is too cute as well!
Happy Monday…and YEAH…MY SECRETARIAT AWARD on Saturday…and SUPER BOWL on Sunday! I just feel this is the start of a GREAT WEEK!
With Love,
Hugs to ALL~
Z
Joani
Just want to thank you, Zenny and Dottie, for all the wonderful updates so We all can keep track of what’s happening in your life! Really missing you at the races but I know all good things have to end sometime, now we can look forward to a little colt or filly just like you and her proud papa! I’ll sure be watching the festivities on Saturday!!! Hope they show some of your races too, and your fan appearances every day!
I kinda think maybe we should all be content with one big post a week, so Dottie can have some free time, although I enjoy them as is for sure!
Lynette Lucas
Love you Zenyatta!!! I’m so glad you are getting the award on Sat!!!
JOAN WOOD PEDRON
DID I miss a picture of the father to be of your child???
Gloria Jeanne
Can’t wait to see you as a bronze at Hollywood Park. Love you Zenny!
Maribel
Zenyatta I am so excited about your bronze …but how could anyone ever capture the beauty and essence of YOU ?? Not possible nothing could be that exquisite ! Be sure you thank Mrs Chenery for the great honor she is bestowing on YOU …she loves you too! luv you Zen XXXXX
Barbara Wood
Wow, Z!
Just when we think there’s no uncharted territory for you, we find out you are also a MUSICAL GENIUS! What other horse on the face of the earth could DANCE on cue to the song “Dancing Cheek to Cheek”? You never cease to amaze us. We LOVE you!
Pattie from Pickens, SC
I think it is time for, Groom of the Year Award!! Mario Espenosa has my vote !! Please E-mail Secretariat.com & ask Penny Chenery to consider it when she gives Zenyatta the VOX POPULI AWARD this Saturday. We can do this for Mario :)
sue
Good day to all of you. And yes I will have a good day too since I am blessed with all of you in the world.
Linda B
Morning Zen,
Watched the youtube video and find you a true sweetheart. I am sure other horses would be jittery and not stand still when a stranger touched them. It shows how your team helped you feel comfortable and relaxed. Mario, if you read this good job well done. You have my vote for GROOM OF THE YEAR.
Adrianne
Love you Z!!
Charlotte
Loved the video from Nina. Zenny you are such a pro and always so cool, calm and collected. Thank you for sharing.
LarriLou Kallsen
Where do we see the presentation of the Secretariat Award for you Zenyatta?
Linda B
the e-mail address for groom of the year is information@secretariat.com
good luck Mario
Rhonda Clements
We are living in trying times. Many people are unemployed, homes are being foreclosed, school district, city, state, and national budgets are being cut, we are engaged in seemingly unending wars and large numbers of American military men and women are returning home badly wounded. Just as Seabiscuit offered a symbol of success and hope to many afflicted by the Great Depression, so Zenyatta has been a model of what we hold dear: talent combined with heart, charisma mixed with sweetness, beauty enhanced by innocence. She has given us a focus away from the worries and sorrows of daily life. She has offered us hope that we can still pursue and find happiness in spite of our present political contentiousness, social upheaval, and psychological duress. Zenyatta is a horse for the ages not only because of her performance on the race
track, which was spectacular. She is the Horse of Our Era, because she has spoken to our better selves at a time when we have lost some sense of our moral compass. If that were not the case, why did so many men and women weep when we watched her race and when she was finally acknowledged as 2010 Horse of the Year? When her biography is written, I believe that Zenyatta’s larger significance, one that transcends her sport, will be acknowledged and celebrated.
No other horse could have even been considered for the first Secretariat Award, there is only one horse deserving of this honor and it is our Queen Zenyatta! Love you Zenny, and the whole Z family. Congratulations!
Linda Shull
Wonderful award and well deserved.
Linda B
@Rhonda Clements
Well said. This is the true spirit of this God Given Gift. Thanks for your words
Stella
Dear Queen Z,
You are a bright star in my life and I look forward to reading your diary everyday.
A thousand awards still wouldn’t be enough to acknowledge your greatness, Queen. My family and I wish happy days ahead for you, filled with love and lots of beautiful babies!
Hugs and kisses to you,
Stel PS And enjoy the warmer weather before the snow hits again!
Barb G
Dearest Z: That is one terrific film short of you being measured for the bronze! How regal you were…totally calm and just so incredibly beautiful. See? This can be part of the documentary they will do on you–another adventure for your fans. No movie–who in heck would play Zenyatta??? No other horse looks or is like you, so documentary all the way. The Secretariat Award is just such a great thrill–but then again, you are the great Z. I love you!!!!
Sarah Powell
@Rhonda – well said!
Thanks for the link – always love to see videos of Queen Z! I agree with a previous post – we’d love to hear more about how Dottie got involved and became so knowledgeable. She certainly is a major part of team Z. Can’t wait to see videos of all the festivities this weekend – such a deserved award and so exciting.
Sharon
LOVE the picture of Mario with Zenyatta. I ordered the pic of Mario and Carmen at LE, greeting Zenyatta. There is a look in Z’s eyes that is nothing less than true love,as she lowers her head to see her friends!! It’s framed and on my call, next to the TVG 2009 Zenyatta Breeder’s Cup poster that Mario autographed for me. The sun is shining in Seattle today. It warms the heart, just like Zenyatta!
Sharon
“on my wall” I meant!!
Debbie
great pic of you and Mario! love you Z!!! xo
The Kennedys in San Diego
Thank you for the link to Nina Kaiser measuring/photographing Zenyatta. We placed it our ‘Favorites’ file. We are so looking forward to receiving our Limited Edition sculpture which should be available in 4 to 6 weeks. We have the perfect place for it.
We met Nina on several of her visits to Barn 55. She told us that Zenyatta was so patient with all the measurements she took in more than 20 minutes in her stall. Nina is the sculptor of the life-size John Henry bronze at Santa Anita. However, the Zenyatta life-size will require a lot more bronze.
We hope the life-size Zenyatta bronze will be placed at the Kentucky Horse Park close to those of Man O’War and Secretariat. That would be fitting for her legacy.
Andrea from Germany
Wow I Have seen the video you are so calm and relaxed an well behaved. Love you Zenny.
Sheri
I’m glad to hear that all your friends are doing very well. Zenyatta, you are very tall!! I wonder what it would look like if you stood next to Mine That Bird…haha! I will be sure to watch the Youtube video! It sounds very cool! :D
Quarterhossgal
I applaud Mario as Groom of the Year, no one spends more time with their horses than the Groom. I’m sure Mario spent many happy hours with Zenny, sharing secrets that will be kept. What an honor to be the one that took care of Zen’s legs and hair coat, really all her needs. There is nothing like being able to bury your head in your horse’s mane and give them a big hug! The bronze at $1250 might be a little pricey for me, but a copy of that great poster that will be sold at Santa Anita would be just fine! I’ve tried to contact Santa Anita to see if I can purchase one. I hope it will be available.
Zenny have a happy day, in about a month you will be meeting your new boyfriend!
Dottie…you are an unbelievable source of multiple talents!
Louise Bland
You beautiful girl, Zenyatta!
You’re such a fun girl to write each day and let us know what’s going on there and around you. It’s not such a shock when you tell us things when you’ve hinted a little. hugs and kisses.
Love, too.
Judy Gadwood Loves Zenny/California
Good Monday morning Zenny!
Incredible how many comments you get in such a short period of time…
I will be at Santa Anita on Saturday. I plan to bring a poster of a photo – perhaps one taken of you and me! Or, perhaps the one I had taken with Ann & Jerry and Dottie & John :-) Decisions, decisions, decisions..
BTW I can’t wait to see Mikey! I haven’t seen him since last year!
The Kennedys in San Diego
@Sheri — You can check out the size difference on the video of the 2009 BCC. She passes him on the clubhouse turn and the difference is stark, particularly the width of the rear end. No offense, Zenyatta, but you are a big, beautiful girl in every way.
Henrietta Wolfe
Happy beginning of the week to YOU also How much more could you have going on?? YOU are one busy lady. Mario must have a hurting heart without YOU. I can’t imagine what they do without giving you a hug and kiss everyday. I love how they have your old area all fixed up. Your presence will never leave Barn 55.YOU leave a happy trail wherever YOU have been. I LOVE YOU ZENYATTA and will be waiting to hear from you. xoxoxoxxo