Happy Friday to ALL!
It is another wonderful time for our sport this weekend. The programs in our country are highly contested. Then at Ascot, their weekend card features the inaugural British Champions Day. The race which will truly create a great deal attention is the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes–G1. FRANKEL is entered to run in this one mile turf event. He is going for his 9th straight victory while remaining undefeated! The feeling of anticipation and excitement surrounding this wonderful 3 year old colt is something to be enjoyed and embraced by all of racing.
FRANKEL…by Galileo (GB) out of Kind…is owned and bred by Juddmonte Farms. As a 2 year old, he performed beautifully in his races…so much so that he was awarded the honor of being the 2010 European Champion 2 year old colt.
As a 3 year old, he has continued to develop and mature at a very high level. As of August 5, 2011, he was ranked #1 in the World Thoroughbred Rankings!
This is truly an achievement of great pride and respect!
Other 3 year old stakes will be running this weekend in our country. In California, the Oak Tree Derby runs on Saturday and the Harold C. Ramser, Sr. (fillies) on Sunday! Then at Keeneland, we have the Queen Elizabeth Challenge Cup on Saturday for 3 year old fillies. This is one FUN TIME of the year to be 3!
HERE’S WISHING THE VERY BEST TO ALL OF THE HORSES AND THEIR CONNECTIONS!
Enjoy your handicapping and your weekend!
With Love,
Hugs to All~
Z
PS. I know what MY JOHN did yesterday! I’ll share it with YOU next week! He said it was VERY SPECIAL and I’D BE SO PROUD!
Anne from Paramount, CA
Hello QUEEN Z! So pleased to learn your party plans are moving along so well. And as usual I love all the photos! Each one makes me SMILE which has been very much needed. You do so much for us, our QUEEN, thank you!!! Some very bad things happened not far from here and well, I won’t go on, EXCEPT to say that Rod and I got married in Seal Beach in 1973. Finally finding time now to read and post and want to add some party “notes” of my own, if I may lighten–really lighten-the mood.
@Dumplings at JAG’s birthday bash (and @everyone else of course): yes it was a fantastic day! So happy I could partake in the festivities. For me, it started with talking to Dottie AND Sophie at Clocker’s Corner.(I identifed myself with my Dumpling tag–@diastu, thanks! ) JAG joined in shortly. Of course both D and S were so friendly. What a sweetie Sophie is, kisses and all. Thanks, Dottie for letting us have a mutual admiration society for a short time! (Right before that MIKEY was talking to Dottie about Cloud Man’s work–I stayed in the background there.)
@Trina N: I enjoyed our sharing of the Seabiscuit tram ride,even though I cut my own time there short. Trina continued on (after the backstretch ride),asking great questions in the receiving barn, then went on –she tells me–to the jockeys’ room and loved it. So all of that made for a great morning! Then at noon we posed in front of John Henry–@JAG: thank you and Jeff! And @ Dumplings all: you should see all the name tags Diastu had with her. @ Diastu: IMPRESSIVE, lady; I was in awe viewing them all. The rest of the day was with the group in/out chatting, betting and cheering. Glad you all had such a great time at the Derby!
@Cynthia Holt, it was a pleasure meeting you in person. Good to learn you are still employed at S.A. That “purge” was a little scary.
@Trina N: your poetry continues to amaze me–well, perhaps it shouldn’t anymore. I share everyone’s delight in reading them. Enjoyed your company on the Seabiscuit tram tour, even though Karen Gogue had to sleep in for me to get that seat. :) @Karen: thanks!
@all the Libras and October b/days–Cheers! There seem to be so many I don’t want to leave anyone out. Tomorrow is Rod’s so there’s one more.
@Karen G. thanks for taking time to see Rod. Nice!
@Trina, Rod enjoyed meeting you. He is pleased to put faces with the names I often mention. Today he wanted to know who is the guy who tells the jokes. @Terry Crow, keep ’em coming! :)
@Sharon Call: Your description of our Queen’s final race was so wonderful, as others have said before me.
@JAG and Delrene, we were there yesterday (Saturday), too! Not sure which day it will be this weekend…some birthday dinners are not settled yet. (Of two couples, three of us have Oct. b.days.)
@All, I want to say something about Blind Luck and HDG, but I will save that for another time. It is not negative, just a nice experience I had. Perhaps later this week.
@Trina N: a thought: what about a poem of your thoughts of the Seabiscuit tour? I mention it because you seemed so delighted by the experience.(I must say it is much much better than many years ago. After the movie came out they really jazzed it up, for the better. More casual fan friendly.
@Z, and all, happy what’s left of Sunday! :)
judy berube
Dear Stephanie (s in San Diego):
So true. Z has made so many aware ofthe help the horses need through her charities and her wonderful Team. If we all do a little bit, it will add up to a lot. Hugs, JB
Irene Caty
Hi Zenny, I hope that all of the Horse Racing events this week end turn out good and Frankel is a good horse and we wish him well. I will be anxious to see what the special surprise is from your John and I bet it will be good. A wonderfull weekend to you and all at barn 55.
Erin
@ To all, “Say good night, John boy”…. until tomorrow.
Delrene
@Hi Zenyatta and friends. It was a nice weekend with all the racing events. I wore my Z tag with pride and waved to Mr. Moss and your Dottie out in the paddock with Cloudman prior to the 9th race. The 10th race was the baby girls and I always worry about them – They are so young. I hope that Peppy Bolly is ok. She was scratched at the starting gate . Mr. Mandella, the trainer. If anyone knows, is she ok? In the 8th race, with Summers at Del Mar unseating Rafael B, that is the 2nd time I’ve seen that happen. Last year a horse called “She’ll Heir” rode the race in its entirety without a rider. My little bet was on a gray/roan named Jaylo Marino and he won! Love those grays.
A wonderful day, although the mountains weren’t as clear because of the dreaded smog/
Sorry I didn’t run into any Z’ ladies, but there will always be another time.
Have a great week everyone. Especially you and TT. You are both just glowing.
Your Dottie looked very pretty in her ruffled skirt. We had fun and I was on the lookout for any other “tags” but the only one who noticed it was the bugler and he chatted with me for a moment! I’m just sorry, I didn’t tape NBC with your pictures, but thank you for the You Tube link that I watched. Love your tail flying and running about with your best frend TT. You look so happy and carefree. I’m so glad you got to visit with your John.
Trina – your poem was so amazing ( again) Glad you liked the article and I got the 2nd one right!
Vicki B.
Just caught up reading today, loved the jokes, links, Frankel, Sara Lynx, John’s interview and Zenny running with T.T., discussions on Turkoman, on the new whip rule, on Hollendorfer, results for Dutrow, Ingrid’s wins, all the birthdays & poems by Trina, Deb.R.’s grandson to come, Sharon call’s writeup on Zenny’s last race. Thanks, all.
Trina Nagele
@Delrene and Deborah Richman—Oh my goodness,I mixed up your post, Delrene, about going to Santa Anita this weekend in my mind with birthday-girl-to-be Deborah! Well, my face is red! Apologies to the two of you! I’m sorry you haven’t gotten to meet up with other Dumplings yet, Delrene, but it sounds like you had a super time seeing Dottie and Mr. Moss, and all the horses, and you won on the gray—-high hoof! That bugler is a very nice fellow too, isn’t he–did he already know about the Dumpling tags, or did you need to explain them?
@Congratulations to Lisa’s Booby Trap on her win!
@Judy Berube—Thanks for the NBC interview link—didn’t Z and TT look glorious trotting alongside each other as if doing their own choreography!
Eve
Great to see the clip on you on Saturday during the tv broadcast of the race at Keeneland. You looked so good.
signofthetimes
@Anne from Paramount CA
Glad you all’ had a great time at JAG party.
Trina Nagele
Good morning, Z! There’s a birthday today!
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A Birthday Poem for Rod from Paramount
(October 17, 2011)
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At Santa Anita
Last week,
It was delightful
You to greet,
And ’twas grand
To shake your hand.
’Tis
So nice to meet
Face to face
Someone you’ve gotten to know
In virtual space.
And I learned from Anne and you
Your Rightful
(Rightful Image, that is)
Had not gotten his due
From me
When in Anne’s poem I wrote
So far his best race
Had been a place
Under Mikey—
I made a quick note,
And now I can correctly quote
That place was his race number three,
And then under Alonso Quiñonez
He WON
Race number four!
Well done, Rightful, well done!
I further learned
He has now returned
From R and R
On the Hemet farm,
And you hope to see him soon start
At Hollywood Park!
Now that’s something to cheer!
So happy birthday to you this year,
Dear Rod,
And we pray to God
He’ll give you many, many more!
Peggy One
Mary: That’s the trouble with ‘just typing’…it comes across in all different ways to many people. I’m sorry if it seemed I was “attacking” anyone. I wasn’t.
I DO have some different opinions that some on this forum in that I don’t believe in gossip and really think it demeans those who indulge in it and those who read it. I’ve seen what it does in others’ lives.
No, Mary, I didn’t say I’d been in this since 1960 to make you think I could “never be wrong”, at all. In fact, I must’ve been when I posted the Jockey Club registration fee schedule, and didn’t realize Judy was talking about some ‘voluntary’ fee. Sorry, Judy, for not reading your post more thoroughly.
Have a nice day.
DJ
Your welcome TC, Trina and JB! Thank you! :) Beautiful poem Trina!
Paul
Ignore all of the people on this post who are doing nothing but looking at what is wrong with how a few horses are being handled and complaining that someone is too cheap to put some money forward. To all of you people, take all of your negative crap somewhere else. I don’t want to come to this site and read all that garbage. Your mothers should have taught you as kids that if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.
Zenyatta, sorry about that. I’m not the least bit angry with you or any other horse. Anyway, I regret that I couldn’t watch major horseracing this past weekend, especially the race that Frankel was in. But I live in a community where having something to do is a bit spotty, so I have to jump at the chance. You either have everything or close to nothing. Not much of an in between. In other words, I attended a circus and a football game. Unfortunately, TVs in bars where I live do not play TVG or HRTV. If they did, I would go to those places and those TVs in a heartbeat. I am wondering how to persuade anyone to do that. If anyone can help me on that, please let me know. TVG and HRTV would probably make more money that way if more people knew that the 2 channels existed in which case viewership would be higher.
Vicki B.
Hi Paul – you’re generalizing, when you say “all of the people… who are doing nothing but …”, and judging that it’s “negative crap”. I don’t think anyone is doing “nothing but complaining” here. If everyone only ever said “nice things” (whatever your definition of that would be), there would be no way for people to work through their differences of opinion. And oftentimes, such discussion helps educate, and change things, and it would be a poorer world without any efforts to solve problems. But if “the talk” upsets you, just don’t read it, or try to skip over it.
Delrene
@Trina and Deborah! I came back to this post and found that we were at SA at the same time. Sorry we didn’t meet up! I told the bugleman we were a group of folks that track on the Zenyatta website and a very nice lady from Arizona made us some tags. and that John Sherriffs called his “girls” his dumplings! Hope I got that right. He is a nice person (bugler) and he said “Hi Delrene” the 2nd time I passed by. Great place to meet people who share a real joy of all things relating to horses. Both your poem are so very clever and you are so talented.
Barbara Grimaldi
What kind of community gives you nothing to do…very strange turn of phrase. This place is a garden filled with friendship and peace and happiness and the occasional sad news about horses that horse lovers read to gain balance. Wish Zenny’s life was the life of every TB on the planet…
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