Hello Everyone,
Happy Monday! Sophie and all of my friends at BARN 55 are sending ME and all of TEAM ZENYATTA SPECIAL GOOD LUCK WISHES for tonight!
In our family, we love BUTTERFLIES! We think they are beautiful and represent such a free spirit. In reality, we also feel they are very LUCKY.
To keep with this theme, Sophie is dressed in her LUCKY OUTFIT. It has a beautiful beaded Butterfly on the back. She’s ready to watch the ECLIPSE AWARDS with all of my friends at Barn 55. The area around the TV at BARN 55 will have ‘standing room only’. It is getting close!
Fingers, paws and hooves crossed!
With Love,
Hugs to all~
Z
Maureen
Good luck and God bless, Zenny!! I think everyone on the planet is rooting for you to win The Big One tonight! Our Horse of a Lifetime!!
Barbara Wood
This waiting is excruciating!
Patti Wolf
Good Luck Lady Z, you deserve HOTY!!!
Joan
Dubai Majesty just won. I love DM and she won $1 mil for the owners and 2 nights later they auctioned her off for 1.2 mil. She is now in Japan breeding. What a loss to the US racing farms. SHe is a winner and deserved better from her owners than she got. Hopefully she will be brought/ bought back after her breeding days end. If the Moss’ had owned her she would still be here. Zen is one lucky lady, she couldn’t have done it alone.
AJ from CA
I’m watching Eclipse Awards on PrimeTicket and right now they just gave Sprinter Award to the filly Dubai Majesty but don’t know how many more awards to go before HOY since I don’t have a program.
tony
Sounds like Mike R “gets it”. Hoping for the best here for our Queen!
Joan
HOY is the very last award, probably around 9:30 EST.
Linda in NJ
The Male Sprinter Award went to Big Drama
OraJean Stevenson
Best wishes for Queen-Z & Team-Z to win all 4 Eclipse Awards, for which they are finalists. Love and hugs to this whole, dedicated group. You’re the BEST !!!
Fondly, OraJean
Sharon Call
@Joan. I hate to hear that she went to Japan. I haven’t heard good things about the horses sent over there for breeding. I hope she is an esception.
Astrid
Thanks everyone for all the updates!! I can’t stand the waiting. When is Best Trainer?
Joan
Another special award,it’s for ZEN’s team!!!!!
mars
for those who don’t know a live blog from Ray Paulick
http://www.paulickreport.com/news/ray-s-paddock/ray-paulick-live-blogs-the-eclipse-awards/
Joan
This is so gREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suzanne G
So sorry to hear about Dubai Majesty going to Japan. (Still cannot track down Ginger Punch and Azeri who are there somewhere.) Arghhhhhhh!
Did you see ‘Legend of Zenyatta’ by Wright Thompson, ESPN, also won an Eclipse Award–Feature/Commentary Writing ?
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/eticket/story?page=101104/Zenyatta
‘The piece was an in-depth examination of the impact the two-time Horse of the Year candidate has had on the people who surround her and the larger racing world.’
Joan
So very cool. John had his Zen cap on!!!!
Linda in NJ
Team Zenyatta just won their award. Everyone is there: John and Dottie and John had his hat on. Mike Smith was there and of course the Mosses.
Jane in Seattle
Oh too funny! I said a couple of days ago I couldn’t wait to see John in his tuxedo and baseball cap, but I didn’t beleive he’d really do it! I hope someone posts a picture!
Tricia Clemmensen
Z – I hope you’re just chilling tonight with your new buddies and drinking a guiness or two. xoxoxox
NancyP
God Be With You Tonight Most Beautiful Girl of All and all of your Great Team!
Hugs and Kisses
NancyP
Linda in NJ
Blind Luck just won for the 3 Year Old Filly.
Joan
@ Sharon. I got to see DM at the barn after the race, she is beautiful. You know Japan , well they eat HM, pains me to say and one truly special horse was slaughtered after stud days ended. SInce US tries to get them back, I hope DM ends up right back here one day. SHe needs to be back in Ocala, where she started.
Blind Luck just won, so deserved.
Timmy Todd M.A,
You win,,,,You silly Girl You win it all….You are the Queen,,,and I am your servant… You are Horse of the Year and I said it first….right here right now….
Prof. Timmy
Lisa Smith
Zenyatta, this SHOULD be Horse of the Year Number 3 for you. Win or lose, YOU ARE FOREVER OUR QUEEN!!
Timmy Todd M.A,
She is the Queen and Horse of the year…now they have 89 years to try to top her…Ladies and Gentlemen The Queen…Zenyatta
Barbara Wood
I worry about those in Japan too, but I think our friends at Old Friends are on top of the situations there. They told me they have developed contacts over there. So maybe they will keep track of them for us.
Timmy Todd M.A,
It is official she wins she wins whe wins she wins she wins….Huzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
long Live the Queen of Racing… and Horse of the Year
Joan
Blind Lucks owner just said some very wonderful things about our big girl Zen, her owners. I wonder if she has a facebook.
Linda in NJ
Blind Luck’s owner just thanked Zenyatta the greatest race horse he has ever seen in 5 decades. Also thanked the Mosses for being such great ambassadors to Horse Racing.
Linda in NJ
Lookin at Luck just won for the 3 year old males.