HAPPY NEW YEAR’S EVE TO EVERYONE!
Today is a FUN DAY! I usually go out to the paddock at about 7 in the morning. Now the ground is a bit snowy…and even a bit muddy in spots. When I first get turned out, I really play and run hard. It is fun to stretch my legs and all after a night’s rest. I have started to do this new thing…for me…and that is roll on my back on the ground. I did it in the snow the other day. Dottie teased me that I was making Zenyatta Snow Angels. Then yesterday…it was a bit muddy and I was able to roll in the mud! I have NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE that I can remember. It was GREAT FUN!
Sarah is going to try and get to Lane’s End early to get some footage of me doing this for you. It will be on FACEBOOK. Janie, you do not have to be a FACEBOOK member to go to ‘my’ FACEBOOK page. On the opening page of my Zenyatta.com site, there is a FACEBOOK SYMBOL in the upper right hand portion. Just hit this…and it will take you to my page…and my page only. Then hit WALL…and there you are! We put this here especially for people who are not on Facebook. This way, everyone can still follow my escapades and keep in touch!
Last night, I got to TANGO with John and Dottie right before I went to sleep. This morning, BARN 55 is going to TANGO with me right after training. I can’t wait to visit with all of them again! Ann and Jerry will call later in the morning as well. I LOVE THIS! I CAN PERSONALLY WISH ALL OF MY CA FAMILY…HAPPY NEW YEAR’S EVE and HAPPY 2011! WHAT FUN!
I have so much to be grateful for at this time…and reflecting on 2010…I do realize what a fortunate horse I am.
I totally appreciate ALL who have cared for me and loved me…EVERY STEP OF MY JOURNEY. It was not always easy…even though my TEAM made it look that way. I love each and every one of YOU…and deeply appreciate the time, love, care and respect you have shown me every single moment of my life.
As for my wonderful, wonderful FANS, what can I say? I have been blessed. I have tried very hard to do my best and add honor, dignity and LOTS of FUN to my sport! You have cheered me on, supported me, and wished me well. I have had fun meeting you and watching you have a great time. It was wonderful to see people from all over the country fly in to meet me. I also loved the fact that so many of YOU have made friends with each other…and are now bonding, going to different racing venues together, and sharing the beauty of THIS SPORT.
IT HAS BEEN AN ABSOLUTE HONOR TO SHARE MY LIFE, MY CAREER AND MY ADVENTURES WITH EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU!
Some of you have asked how I’m spending New Year’s Eve. Well, my girlfriends and I will be outside playing for a bit…then come in and have a great dinner…toast with a bit of Guinness…and visit. Usually about 7 in the evening, we are all ready to relax and have ‘lights out’.
After all, we really need our BEAUTY SLEEP tonight. January 1st is our ‘joint’ birthday! Each of us will turn a year older tomorrow morning. I’ll be ‘technically’ 7! Good thing I exercise and keep in shape!
May we all be blessed to have a wonderful NEW YEAR ahead of us…filled with lots of GOOD HEALTH, HAPPINESS, AND NEW ADVENTURES!
I know in 2011, I will definitely have many ‘new things’ going on! I’m so excited! I hope to be able to share all of them with YOU!
One more thing…PLEASE BE SAFE tonight and always!
With Love,
Hugs to all~
Z
Kim S
What a great year for you Zenny!!! You are so loved by your fans and certainly your California Family. And now it seems like you have mesmerized your Kentucky entourage. :) Maybe through these connections and your wonderful writing abilities, other less fortunate racehorses can benefit from your diary entries. Is there anyway to get some kind of sponsorship to view your diary or video entries and have the proceeds go to retired racehorses? If you check out these websites: Animalrescusesite.com or Therainforestsite.com they have an area to click onto to have donations sent to needy animals and animal habitats. Not sure what is involved in setting up something like this, but it’s an easy way to give to these worthy causes. And an easy way for a lot of Zenyatta fans to give back some of their “Good Zenyatta Feelings”. I hope this is another blessed year for you Zenny and Team Zenyatta and now for your new family at Lane’s End, which they will surely have with you in their midst.
Happy New Year Zenyatta and to all your human connections. Have a wonderful 7th birthday day and Happy Birthday to all racehorses and retirees everywhere. Lotsa love to you always Zenny. Everyone be safe tonight and in the new year
Nancy
@Ensign
Really appreciate your comments on breeding
as well. From a humanistic perspective Dynaformer
is not bred to maidens because of his difficult temperament.
Barbaro was his son and had leg issues may be the law of averages
as a health care provider I don’t like to see it. Also, no matter
what his success as a sire. I would not want a sweet and gentle
mare like Z bred to a stallion with his temperament. The mares don’t get the best end of the deal so why make it more
undifficult. Really enjoy your comments.
Kathryn Cogswell
Dear Elena: Only by ‘Zenyatta Dust’ would I ‘know’ someone pacing the ‘Mustang Float’ in The Rose Parade! This IS a treat. ~ My big game isn’t `til the 10th of JANUARY! — not tomorrow. Really dates me, thinking they’re all on New Year`s Day. ~ Mary-Jane McKittrick on ‘Z`s FaceBook Wall’ wrote a ‘ZIPPEE!’ note today. Ditto, M-K, & Thank You. Khc.
lisa
Happy bday new year! I carry a pocket angel so I understand why John had one for you. We all need our angels flying with us through life! Now we need a pocket angel with Queen Z on it so we can carry your spirit with us!
Melinda
Happy New Year and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to ZENYATTA…..THE QUEEN OF THE SPORT OF KINGS…Thanks for keeping us updated and a part of your life. Thanks to Team Zenyatta for all their efforts in 2010 and during, before and after your racing career. Looking forward to 2011 and hearing every detail about your retirement days!!!
Sharon
happy new year and an extra guiness salute to the Queen and all her connections!! Somewhere in the world is a woman I met at the ’08 BC who pointed out Z to me and said “that is a very special horse!” right after Z won the Filly/Mare Classic! I’d like to THANK her so much because ever since then it’s been and will always be a classy, exciting “ride” with Zenyatta. I am a forever fan!!!
Franci Nelson
Happy New Year Zenyatta and all who love you. We hope you have a great new year full of wonderful new experiences. We love you and wish for only the best for you in this new year.
Linda Henderson
Happy New Year, precious Zenyatta. I look forward each evening to the latest diary entry. So sweet. Thank you.
Yvonne and Maurice Kirby
Hi Zenyatta. May you and our BBF(s) have a wonderful New Year’s eve, enjoying your meal, guinness and each other. Love to you always. Also, happy, happy birthday. I cannot wait to see the video of you making snow angels. I do not belong to Facebook and am so happy I will be able to view your Facebook page. That is so great. Hubbie and I can’t wait to see your pics/videos. May you and your entire Zenyatta Teams have a wonderful, healthy, happy and safe New Year 2011. Love you forever.
Julie B.
Happy New Year Z Teams. You done a fabulous job and had a great year. Thanks for sharing. We love you!
Barbara Wood
For whatever it’s worth, when we were at Three Chimneys, we were told that Dynaformer isn’t bad with his mares. He’s just grumpy with humans, and he is NOT one one the ones ridden regularly. I thought he still looked great for his age.
Good night, sweet Z. We’ll continue to follow you because you are a part of us now. I spend more time with you than I do with our daughter’s horse, and I adore him. He has some of your relatives.
This has been a difficult year for many of us in various ways. Praying for a safe and healthy 2011 for all of us. Love you always.
saharagold
Queen Z –
I went to Santa Anita today for the day of racing. I saw Mike ride twice! I took his picture and yelled, “Hi, MIke!” I am taking my study of handicapping seriously, and I am very happy to say that I won more money than I lost! I had a win ticket AND and exacta ticket on the 7th race!
Thanks for turning me on to this fun & exciting pastime – a day at the races. (Now, of course, it is NOT the same because YOU are not running!).
Peggy
Zenyatta, well its almost midnight and 2011 Happy Birthday and Happy New Year. I hope your having another Guinnes right now. Wish you all the good health and happiness this coming year, just wanted to be here at midnight to tell you. Zen I was though a little worried when I saw you running so on the snow, please be careful, we sure don’t want you hurting a leg or hoof and heaven for bid getting Laminitis. Plese be careful. And Dawn, I will keep in touch and you as well, I hope we get good news for the future. I know there’s that 5 year deal, I’m saying my prayers, for you too, Cindy. Zenyatta I wanted to Thank you too, for your video of your Barn Cat, he’s so cute. Please keep me in your prayers as I lost my beloved Cat Holly this past August. I had her for about l3 years, she was my best friend and my little angel. I think my eyes are about permanently swollen i’ve cried so much. I just pray to the good lord that he has her with him, I always put Barbaro, Secretariat and my horses that have passed in with that prayer. I hope so hard that our beloved pets go to heaven as well. I like to keep on my heart that Holly found me once here, I hope she finds me again someday. Enough with the sadness. Zenyatta i am so glad that you are here with us, and hope hope hope to see you at Lane’s end one day. Oh, my vote is still for A.P. Indy to be your first date, Zenyatta please keep in mind he’s getting older and there may not be much time left. think about that family, Bold ruler, Something Royal, Secretariat, Seattle Slew, you belong with that family, its a slam dunk. Just hope you two can have a foal. Think about Point Given for the future, he’s just over at three chimneys. Indy and him the best.It’s almost New Years about 5 minutes.Love You Zen Peggy
saharagold
P.S. Sorry! I forgot to say HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and all your old & new connections. I have special thanks for John for letting us visit you. It MADE my year!
Judy Gadwood Loves Zenny/California
Zenny! Zenny! Zenny! Happy New Year! Happy 7th Birthday (we’ll celebrate again on April 1st).
Thank you for making me :-) smile these past years.
Enjoy “motherhood”, I know you’ll be a great mommy! Thanks for sharing your new life with us. You are so special to me.
XOXO
S
Happy New Year! Happy Birthday! Happy Life!
John and Nikki Dill
We fell in love with Zenyata, as did the whole world!!!
Mary
Dearest Zenyatta
You must have no idea what beauty and adventure and magic you have brought so many people…every time I read your dairy which is every day, I cry. You are a Champion, we just want to get close enough and hug you…
Whoever writes this please keep doing it. You must know how she is loved, thank you for doing this.
Zenyatta no one knows what the New Year shall bring but I pray you stay happy, healthy and in touch with us. We love you so much. You gave us so much.
“Zenyatta I Love You”
Pamela J Hebert
HAPPY NEW YEAR Zenyatta & Team Zenyatta!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you Zenny, PQ & all your new girlfriends at Lane’s End!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR Dottie, John, Sophie, Ann & Jerry, Carmen & Mario, & everyone at Barn 55. What a ride you’ve taken us all on. God bless.
Joani Jiannine
I would like to wish A Happy, Prosperous and Healthy New Year to YOU Zenny, your extended “Team Z’s in CA and KY, and to all your fans who write in here!!!
Many thanks for the great pics and videos and all the ‘letter posts’ that are shared with us everyday!
lanie Johnson
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND NEW YEAR SWEET GIRL!!! I LOVE YOU!!!
janet
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Becky F
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Becky F
…and Happy Birthday, technically! Thanks for another wonderful year and for teaching us all so many valuable lessons about life. You and your beloved family are making a difference for so many! Thank you for being you, Zenny, and thank you for always being so gracious.
Leslie R.
Happy New Year sweet Z!! I wish you and your Cali and Kentucky families good health and happiness in 2011!
Love you,
Leslie
graham p malpas
a very happy birthday to the “Queen” of the Sport of Kings.do have a very good 2011 too.
cara
Hope 2011 is a good year for you. 2010 sure was!
M, LB & RL
Happy New Year to Z and all her connections in CA as well as her new family in KY. Thank you for all you have done for our equine and the horse racing industry.
Sondre
Happy New Year to you, Zenyatta! Also, wishing a Happy New Year to all who are connected to you and care for you. An extra wish for the greatest new year 2011 to Dottie for her faithful updates and colorful nuggets about your latest news and activities. She has shared and taught us so much about racing and horses and your colorful world. May 2011 be the best year yet!
Karen in CA
Happy Birthday, Miss Z, and a happy and healthy 2011 to you and Team Z.
Yes, AP Indy, but what about Candy Ride? Consider Big Brown in the future = a monster machine.