Dear Friends,
Today marks the end of another year! In my lifetime, I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have several very wonderful years filled with the love, kindness and thoughtfulness of so many people.
December 31st can also be a day of great reflection. Often people review the year mentally …and the different paths that took place in their lives. For ME, this was definitely a year of CHANGE. My life and career went from one amazing stage to another…from being the very accomplished professional athlete that I was…to now becoming a broodmare. Hopefully, though, throughout all of these life changes for ME one thing has remained constant….that I have continued to be a TRUE FRIEND to ALL OF YOU….the wonderful people who have shared so many of these experiences with ME!
Additionally, 2011 will always mean a great deal to ME personally for another reason… thanks to ALL OF YOU, MY DEAR OWNERS, and MY DEVOTED FRIENDS AT BARN 55….I became the 2010 HORSE OF THE YEAR last January! I will always celebrate this moment and cherish it! In all sincerity, it did mean the world to ME to be recognized for ALL of my racing accomplishments with this honor. From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU for your part in helping to make it possible!
I know many people are celebrating tonight and making their 2012 NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS! Mine are quite simple yet specific….I want to eat right, stay healthy, and become a terrific MOM! I also want to be a loving friend to ALL of YOU and a great role model and inspiration for MY SPORT! It is so special to be able to ‘give something back’. Each of these goals encompasses a very high level of importance to ME!
TASTY and I, TEAM ZENYATTA, BARN 55, and our LANE’S END pals, ALL want to wish EVERY ONE of you a GREAT 2012….blessed with lots of love, great health, happiness, and the joy of realizing your dreams and cherished special moments.
With Love,
Hugs to All~(HAPPY, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU!)
Z
Oh, this is TOO CUTE! We also wanted to start the NEW YEAR with a HIGH HOOF to celebrate our BRAND NEW WEBSITE DESIGN. My dear ‘tech’ friends, TYLER and KYLE, are working on the final details of it at this moment! The site will be down for maintenance for some time on Sunday. Depending on your timezone, the new site will be online Sunday night or Monday morning. I must say, I think it is going to be ONE FUN and VERY EXCITING NEW YEAR!
CHEERS EVERYONE!
Dani
Happy New Year to all of Team Z and to all who post here. May 2012 be a year of great health, much happiness, wonderful new beginnings and cherished moments.
Beth Buckley
Happy New Year Barn 55 crew, John and Dottie and Jerry and Ann, Lanes End crew and Zenyatta and Tasty, and Mikey Smith!
Rosanne Glynn
hAPPY nEW yEAR aLL! Zenyatta I love you! Just saw the movie “War Horse” It was great. I hope no horses were hurt making this movie.
Zeina
happy new year sweetie!!! May this year be filled with happiness, health and joy for everyone and especially you Zenny; I don’t think any of us can forget that wonderful day you were crowned HOY. There could’t be anyone more deserving!
God bless you and your family and friends and have a splendid 2012.
Lots of love,
Zeina
Peppermint
A Happy and Healthy New Year to all! 2012 will bring so much joy with the new foals that we all are eagerly anticipating! A huge THANK YOU to Dottie, John and all who make this wonderful website possible! Can’t wait to see the new version.
Happy Birthday Zenyatta!
@ Kari Bussell Thanks for the neat birthday link, we loved it.
Abigail from Montreal
@ DAWN: GREAT EMAIL & GREAT MESSAGE! So PROUD to count you among my friends, Dawn!
@ SHARI: Glad to hear your husband is on the mend. Blessings to you both in the New Year.
@ KARI: PLEASE send me your full address!!!!
Cynthia H./Santa Anita Girl
Good luck to MANK, trained by your dear John and owned by your beloved Ann and Jerry, which is running in the 5th race today at Santa Anita. Perhaps he is named for their great friend the late Tom Mankiewicz, for whom the Conservation Carousel is named at the L.A. Zoo. YOU are the star attraction there, Zenyatta!
Cheryl
Happy “official” Birthday, Queen Z. And best wishes for a wonderful New Year to all of Team Z, Barn 55 and the Dumplings on this site. I look forward to the new web site and am glad that you told us that the site would be down as I would otherwise have been very worried! Love to all !
Suzanne G (IL)
@Kari Bussell–great to see such beautiful birthday wishes for the beautiful birthday girl!
@Cynthia H–Thanks for posting the link to a perfect video to watch New Year’s Eve.
@Dawn Conrad–love sharing in your wonderful New Year’s wishes.
Linda Shull
Happy New Year to you and your family!!!
Shannon from Cool
Queen Z, YOU bring so much love out of so many people. YOU are a bright shining star in our lives. Thank you.
May 2012 be a whole lot better for a whole lot of people.
Linda in NJ
Dear Zenny: Thank you for being a wonderful friend to all of us! During this past year, I have enjoyed coming to your site every day. Your posts are the highlight of my day. Your positive outlook is so encouraging! I don’t think there is one unkind bone in your body. As we ring in the New Year, I wish YOU, TASTY, YOUR John and Dottie, Mr. and Mrs. Moss, TEAM Z, and all the many wonderful fans that also visit your site each day—I wish all of you the very best in the 2012.
Linda in NJ
Happy New Year Everyone!
LauraJ in Cincinnati OH
@Susan A, LOL if Zenyatta delivers on April 1, she will be about 3 weeks late! She’d probably prefer to have it over by then. :-)
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@Pam Homeier, Rachel’s estimated delivery date is February 1, according to the Stonestreet website. She is carrying a colt.
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Looking forward to the new website design, but please don’t lose the old posts!
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Happy New Year to everyone. Stay safe, and don’t drink and drive.
Linda in NJ
Zenny: I also meant to say this is very exciting news that your site will soon have a new look! Can’t wait to see it!!!
@LauraJ in Cincinnati OH: Thanks for the update on Rachel! February 1st–right around the corner.
Deborah Richman
To Z and Tasty, Team Z, Barn 55, Lanes End, and all Z fans, I want to wish you a happy, healthy new year! May 2012 bring good things to all!
Thank you ALL for bringing such joy to my life! Looking forward to Z’s new adventures in 2012!
Else Fjerdingstad
To all lovers of animals, humans, freedom and animal/ human rights: a happy new year. May you all be safe and succesful. I had looked greatly forward to seeing the foals of Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra and to being there to see them run (hopefully) in the Triple Crown races in 2015 – but since becoming a torture victim of the Danish Bandidos I am suffering progressive bodily decline – and lack of assistance from authorities in dealing w this terror gang that targets the elderly, handicappeds, people of JEwish origin and blacks. I was targeted for being handicapped, of Jewish origin and for loving a black man, If you wish to do a good deed please write your congress man/ woman to ask them to deal with the case and to push Danish authorities into acting with all possible speed. I personally know 35 other torture victims and have also contacted Amnesty International. I would greatly appreciate the support of Zenyatta’s wonderful team and the Moss’.
Kimberly
Happy New Year Zenny……
Jan Doyle / Texas
Happy New Year to everyone. Just want to say thank you Zenyatta for letting us be a big part of your life. Thanks to Dottie and John, Jerry and Ann Moss, Barn 55 and Lanes End. I can’t imagine this year without you. Happy Birthday Zenyatta!
Leslie R.
Happy New Year Zenny, Tasty, Team Z, Barn 55, the Lane’s End crew, and to everyone here!!! I hope everyone has a happy, healthy, joyous and prosperous 2012! Thanks, Zenny, for being such a dear friend.
Love to all,
Leslie
Pam
After reading all of today’s comments, there isn’t anything left to be said but I’ll say it anyway. Thank you to everyone for letting me be part of Zenny’s life for the past year. She is fabulous and so is everyone who is part of Team Z. Tasty is pretty fabulous, too!
I jumped for joy and danced a happy dance when you were named 2010 Horse of the Year. I still smile when I think of that moment. I wanted to hug your neck and give you a big kiss and tell you how proud I was of you and your Team for all of your accomplishments.
You are already a role model and inspiration for your sport and a loving friend to all of us. You are perfection!
Thank you for your wishes for all of us in 2012. It will be a great year because you (and your baby, come March) will be a part of my life.
Happy, Happy New Year!
Irene Caty
Zenyatta, thank you much for all that you have said in this post, it really was very sentimental. You are so loving and you can be sure we will continue to follow you all the way in 2012. We wish you and Tasty the very best in the New Year and also Team Zenyatta at Barn 55 and all at Lanes End. There is alot of Love in all of you and Thanks for shareing the precious moments and events with us. God Bless You All.
Sandy (Northeast Ohio)
Dear Zenny,
Thank you for the very touching post today. I wish you, Tasty, your foals,
everyone at Lane’s End, and everyone on Team Z in California (especially Dottie for creating this wonderful space for all of us) a very happy and healthy New Year!
Love from your Ohio friend, Sandy
Karen
I love you, Zenyatta. All that you said goes ditto for me to you and all your Team. You are a true inspiration to me and I am sure to thousands of others. Happy New Year, Beautiful Girl and to your best friend Tasty and All. You are always in my heart. Love, Love, Love.
Lover of Horses
Oh, you are the best of friends, Zenyatta! I love you so much girl and Happy New Year!
Sandy (Northeast Ohio)
@Dawn Conrad
I’m so glad you reposted your wonderful New Year’s wishes. They were so well done, and it was just amazing how you wove Zenyatta throughout! Thank you for such a wonderful treat.
@Kari B
Your Birthday video was another wonderful treat (I hope you saw the note I left for you back on #407 about “Ode to Joy”)
@Linda M and Suzanne G (IL)
Thanks for the beautiful and touching New Year’s greetings.
TO ALL: HAPPY NEW YEAR and thanks for all of your contributions to this site!! (Wonder what the new one will have in store?) I especially appreciate all of you who have made us “previously non-horse people” feel so welcome.
The link below is (in my humble opinion, anyway) a spectacular look at several New Year’s celebrations (the early ones in the far east) and ends with the entire production of the fireworks over Sidney Harbor in Australia. It is just this side of actually BEING THERE, and I’d bet that this is a better view than many of the tourists got and WAY better than the brief glimpse you see on the news. I’ve always dreamed of seeing this in person (which is unlikely), but this is a close second. Enjoy!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080622/New-Years-Eve-celebrations-Spectacular-fireworks-world-welcome-2012.html
Sue Colvin -NJ
thx for the firework pics :)
jackie feinberg
Good evening Queen Z, wishing you Tasty, Jerry and Ann Moss, Dottie, Job, Mike Smith, Mario, Carmen, everyone at Barn 55 and Lane’s End and of course all my fellow Dumpling all the very best in 2012.
2011 has been a year of many challenges, and sadness, but the one constant has been this site. I have found great strength daily from this site. Dottie a very special thank you. You are one special lady.
Again to all have a safe New Year. And wishing everyone happiness, health and good fortune.
Hugs
jackie
judy berube from Rhode Island
Dear Z,
Goodnight and Sweet Baby Dreams. Love you so much, Judy and Russ
Julie DuVall / Ontario, CA
Happy New Year, Zenny (and everyone else at Barn 55 and Lane’s End)! Here’s hoping that 2012 holds great things for ALL of us in YOUR world, dear Queen!
MK
A most blessed and happy new year to you and your foal Zenyatta. best wishes to all your connections. Again, many thanks for your wonderful website. I look forward to seeing the revamped design tomorrow. Happy 2012!