Zenyatta

Queen of Racing

Zenyatta News

Snow Day

Zenyatta out on a snowy day. Photo courtesy of Alys Emson.
Zenyatta out on a snowy day. Photo courtesy of Alys Emson.

Happy December!

We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Many of you have asked what we have in store for the holidays, and we’re excited to start announcing new products this week. We’ll be rolling out all-new arrivals in the Zenyatta Shop over the next few days. Sign up for our mailing list (on the right side of this blog post) for special deals and announcements!

Enjoy these new photos of Zenyatta and friends out on a snowy Kentucky day.

-Team Z

Photo courtesy of Alys Emson.
Photo courtesy of Alys Emson.


Photo courtesy of Alys Emson.
Photo courtesy of Alys Emson.


Photo courtesy of Alys Emson.
Photo courtesy of Alys Emson.

Reader Interactions

302 Comments

  5. / Reply

    Zenyatta and her family. I am so happy to see new pics of my girl. Last night I watched “Dancing Queen” and felt so sad and missing those days! Stay well Queen, someday I may be allowed to see you again!

  10. / Reply

    You brighten a cold winter day. Looking forward to the spring and seeing team Z running and enjoying sunshine and spring breezes.

  12. / Reply

    Zenny is still first to get to the camera,she is so connected and loves people so much.
    Thank-you for the pictures,it is so good to see her again!!

  13. / Reply

    2 GOOD THINGS: First, So. Cal got much needed rain today. Best, there are new pics out of our darling girl in an “all business” mode. Could it be there’s some peppermints to be had? I think Alys may have captured a little story here. She just has an unfailing “eye,” and all of us can enjoy the moment in our own way. So grateful, Jan Overman

  15. / Reply

    What a lovely winter scene with the focus on the beautiful Zenyatta!
    She looks wonderful.
    Thank you Team Z, the talented Alys, & Team Lane’s End.

  16. / Reply

    Thank you for the beautiful pictures of a happy healthy Zenny. Sure warmed up this cold Indiana winter day. Ann & Jerry should use one of these photos on their Christmas card.

    Sweet Zenny, Silver Charm (the real one) is back in Kentucky at Old Friends. Too bad he is too old for you!

  17. / Reply

    ♥ Hello My Queen!
    Your halter arrived. I love that your DNA is still part of it! I cherish it!!! ♥

    You will be having visitors next month… lucky peeps who won the visits! I look forward to seeing their photos with YOU :-)

    Go make a snow angel, Sweetie! All my love XO Auntie Judy
    p.s. Whoever the lucky Stud Muffin is, we look forward to a new foal sometime next year. God bless you.

  18. / Reply

    Thanks to Alys for taking these gorgeous pictures of our majestic snow queen and thanks to Team Zenyatta for sharing them with us.

    @ Barbara Wood, I hope you are having a great birthday. Enjoy the year ahead. Bless you for all you do to help make things better for horses in need of advocacy.

    Looking forward to seeing the new items in the Zenyatta Shop.

  19. / Reply

    Thanks, Alys, for sharing your talent. Of course, you have great subjects.

    Thanks, Team Z, for sharing Z, Coz, Zi, and Z Princess, will remember her always.

    Blessed holidays to all of us, and mostly Zenyatta, inspiring us in so many ways, for so many years. Beautiful Queen Z.

  20. / Reply

    What beautiful pictures of our Queen!!! Wonder what she thinks about the snow? Does she remember from last year? Thanks for the “heads up” Sheena. I might not have seen these until tomorrow. Thanks to Alys for the photos, Team Z for the post, everyone at Lane’s End for the loving care they provide, and the Mosses for continuing to share this magnificent horse with all of us. <3

  21. / Reply

    Z you are as pretty as ever…you are my favorite horse. I grew up around standardbreds, but I love you so much!!!!

  22. / Reply

    @Marty R–thank you for your kind words.
    And once again, thanks to all who wished me well earlier in the day. I posted my thank-you on the previous blog post (the last one for that previous post. Thanks again to all the good wishes here, by e-mail, and FB. I love you all.

  25. / Reply

    Gee – Zenny has more snow to play in than I have in my section of Michigan! We have been having rain and it took all our snow away…She looks gorgeous as always!!!

  26. / Reply

    Zen will always be a beautiful girl just as her personality is. I can’t wait to get up to Kentucky in hopes of seeing her.

  27. / Reply

    ZENNY!

    Just look at that FROSTY NOSE! It takes me back to that day on December 20 where you ran free @ LE for the first time. Such a gorgeous video — it was one of my very BEST Christmas gifts that year.

    https://staging.zenyatta.com/z_video/zenyatta-lanes-end-farm-dec-20th-2010

    It’s impossible to forget your beauty, Zen, but when I see new photos of you it still takes my breath away. I can’t help it. I just love you, Big Girl!

    FYI: You’ve got MORE SNOW in Kentucky than we have in Montreal!!!! In fact, we have NONE at the moment. We’ve had some snow but then it gets warm and melts away.

    Love & hugs to all

    • / Reply

      Thanks for linking to the video of her first time turned out in the paddock and snow. Always such a treat to watch her flag her tail and run like that with such carefree abandon, but you could see the determined safety measures that were put in place for this special romp – handlers standing along the fence line, handlers in every corner, extra something around the waterer – every thing just so well planned for her safety. She is is such good hands at Lane’s End. So beautiful.

  28. / Reply

    Bless her precious heart. Zenny’s had a rough few months of personal losses, but she looks just as gorgeous and serenely majestic as ever.

    Yesterday I received the DVD, Zenyatta: A Living Legend, which I believe was released by TVG just before her very last race in the 2010 BC Classic. Watching all 19 of her victorious races, I was amazed to discover that Zenyatta did a slight sweeping motion with her head when she settled in the back of the field in each race like she’s analyzing her victims…er… (Ahem!)…competitors (Sorry!), and deciding when and by what route she’d methodically pick each one of them off in devastating fashion. She ALWAYS chose when SHE wanted to make her run, and Her Mike just went right along with her. I hardly ever saw any instances where Mike Smith used the crop on Zenyatta; in fact he said in an interview on the DVD if she ever decided to run full out like she was capable of, her margins of victory would be even wider than they were. In his opinion, Zenny had many more gears she could have called upon to run even faster, and during her career she wasn’t even using half of them to win. Wow.

Leave a Reply to donkeyhotey Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.