HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL OF YOU!
It is early Thanksgiving morning as I’m writing this. It is exactly 4 Thanksgivings ago that I won my first race. So much to be thankful for…and so much to be grateful for along the way.
I know so many people are planning a great dinner. Here, at the barn, we will be celebrating with our normal meals and then some fresh SWEET POTATOES! John buys them for us to munch on as a treat! (That part of the Thanksgiving Day Meal I will share with all of you.) He gives them to us nice and whole and then we get to munch on them. My friends at the barn and I just LOVE them!
The track closes early on Thanksgiving morning….so we all have to get out and get a bit of exercise early. It is brisk and cool outside this morning, but it is absolutely gorgeous.
I hope you all have a wonderful time celebrating today with your family and friends. I will with mine and all of my Team!
With tremendous gratitude and love to you all,
Z
Roxanne Cook
Thank you for this lovely note. I wonder how much you will miss racing and your racing family (LOTS). We are thankful for each moment that we have, sharing our time together with family and friends cuz we just never know what the next year will bring. But I will think of you each & every day because yesterday I just got my 2011 Zenyatta calendar from The Second Race and the pictures are superb!
Leslie
How wonderful to find a post from you today Z! I’m so glad you have such a great team around you that not only do they give you sweet potatos on Thanksgiving, they think of your fans! That’s interesting that you want to boogie! Somehow that doesn’t surprise me Miss Z! You make me happy!! And I’m thankful for you. All the best… Stay well and happy….
Cathy P
Thank you Zenyatta. It sounds like you are going you have a great Thanksgiving with the potato’s. Have a peaceful and relaxed day today and thank you for all that you do.
Love you, Cathy
Jane Cabrinha
Zenyatta, you and all the boys and girls in John’s barn are sure lucky to have him around. He gives wonderful treats. Can just hear all that munchin and crunchin going on.
Pam
Will you put your last run/ happenings with Garth Brooks THE DANCE all that happen even with the jockey fits this song
Happy thanksgiving to every one that makes you you!
John Leach
Zenyatta, You are everything that is good about horse racing and you certainly added a few things. Thank you to your creator and thank you to your team that nurtured your greatness.
Sally Blank
Z!! I love sweet potatoes too!! 4 years ago, wow! Just remember that time can past by fast but memories remain forever!! I love you because of who you are and I think your special team had a part in it for the love they have for you. This is what is so special!! That is why we can celebrate Thanksgiving. Luv
Debbie
Zenny, I just love you and all of your family!! It is cold here today in Wisconsin so I am glad you are nice and warm. I am very thankful to have been able to watch you these past three years and am thankful to all your family for sharing you with us. I wish you and your family and everyone reading this a very happy Thanksgiving and a blessed Christmas and New Year. I love you Queen Z!!!
Jennifer Adelman
Happy Thanksgiving Zenyatta, So grateful for us to enjoy you, such a gorgeous champion as you are! I gave my Doberman Pincher a sweet potato today also. She likes them too but cooked.
Woo Hoo.. I was looking at your possible mates example AP Indy, what gorgeous babies you will make!! Can’t wait for the news about that.
Happy Thanksgiving Z
Valerie Chase
Hope you had a wonderful day with your family and friends Zenny! You do have so much to be thankful for, having the special people around you that care about you so much, but we are so thankful for what you have given us, not just in what you have accomplished on the track, but the love and commraderie you created simply with your presence. There is something so special about you Z that makes us smile and motivates us to live our lives in a more positive and generous manner. Thank you lady Z and thank you again to your family for helping you share with all of us! Huge hug!!!
Debi
Sweetness! Thanks for saying hello, we’re all still missing you. I met someone last weekend that was a big fan too and we sung your praises over dinner! Were your ears itching Saturday nite?? The sweet potato’s sound like a great treat for a special girl on a special day!
Snoprinz
Hi Zenny,
I too love sweet poatoes. What a treat, thanks to John. I’m glad you got to go out for an early morning exercise. Happy Thanksgiving to you and Team Z.
Jennifer Hodell
Hello Zenny..
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We are all so thankful for you sweet girl. Kiss on the nose from me….
Kim Noble
Glad you got a special treat on Thanksgiving. I will probably think of you as “Sweet Potato” from now on. We are all very thankful for you and your good health and the loving family you have. Thanks for the ride!
Becky F
Oh my gosh! John is always thinking of you and doing such sweet things to keep you and your stablemates happy. And look at the outpouring of love to you and your Team, Ms Z! You are truly one of a kind, dear girl. I hope Lane’s End understands how lucky they are to be chosen to take care of you and I hope they are ready for your fans! We all know how you thrive on being with your peeps! Love to you and your family!!
Mary in FLA.
Hi Zenny,
Hope you and your entire devoted Team had a great Thanksgiving. We love you all Zenny. Our Queen forever!
Leslie
Happy Thanksgiving Zenyatta! I hope you enjoyed your sweet potatoes. A lot has happened during these past four years. I’m truly thankful for you and all that you’ve done for horse racing.
Love,
Leslie
Kimberly
I love you Zenyatta! Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for all the joy you have brought to my world… :)
Gerrie P.
Enjoy your sweet potatoes, Zenyatta!
Happy Thanksgiving to your great trainer and your loving family.
I know you loved your jog and gallop. After all, you are the Queen of racing, and always will be the Queen to your grateful adoring fans.
JIM
TO ZENNY LIVING IN LAS VEGAS I WAS ONLY ABLE TO SEE YOU IN PERSON 4 TIMES BUT THOSE MEMORIES OF WATCHING YOU RUN WILL ALWAYS BE WITH ME. TODAY I AM SO THANKFULL I MADE THOSE TRIPS. GOD BLESS YOU AND TEAM ZENYATTA.
Kate McCue
Ah! S-weet!
Dottie
Thank you team Z Thank you John S Thanks for the memorys and the insparation to compete again, 2 gold 2 silver because of team Z, U gave me reason to beleive again. Ill be seeing you in all the old farmiliar places, Thanks for all you do for others, the Trainers, an Owners, and fans like me. God Bless you all.
William
Happy Thanksgiving Z!!! I hope it was a very good one! I’m glad to have heard about sweet potatoes! Perhaps mine will like them too!
Be safe and we are so greatful for you to be here!!
Love William
Yvonne and Maurice Kirby
Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving. I can understand your love of sweet potatoes. I have one each day – I love them! Love you Z.
Linda Weiss
Thanks “Z”. Sounds like you had a great Thanksgiving Day too. We are so thankful for you in our lives. We wish for you all wonderful things in this life. Sweet potatoes….I never would have thought of. My two wonderful horses, Katie & Suzette are in for a real treat.
Lots of love to you beautiful girl.
Linda xoxo
Lanie Johnson
Good morning sweet girl!! Hope your day is full of sunshine. The sun shines bright on my Old Ky Home today but boy is it COLD!!! We are suppose to have a few snow showers also! Guess it’s time to shop!! Anyone there heard from Mike in Japan?Hope he is doing well! Won’t be long now til your big Day at Hollywood Park! Sure wish we knew when you would be flying in to Ky…a lot of people have asked that as they would like to be at the airport to meet you! If it’s through the week I couldn’t make it but on a weekend I just might be able to do so!
Well..you have a loving day and when I’m down and the day isn’t so great..I just go back and watch you race…gives my heart a thrill!! Love you!!!
Stephanie J Lambert
I am Thankful that you and your family came into my life, I am Thankful that God Made You Z, You will live in my heart until my last breath x0x0x0x0x0
MD Reynolds
Happy Thanksgiving to you and all my racing buddies! I’m so very thankful for all of you & the beauties that go out there & compete to see who is the fastest & most enduring thoroughbred! Of those, Zenyatta, you & Rachel A. are my favorites.
Thanks for enabling so many to witness some of the most memorable moments, the past few years, in racing!
Cheryl Hurley
Zenyatta – I am so thankful to you for the wonderful joy and thrills I felt watching your races and just seeing you on tv doing anything at all is good for me!! Your performances have ALL been magnificent – You are a wonderful wonderful horse!!
Morgan
Happy thx giving Zenyatta Luv ya girl!
Your #1 freak fan
Morgan