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Ann and Jerry Visit Zenyatta

Photo by Alys Emson/Lane’s End


Happy Monday!

We thought it would be nice to start the week with photos from last week’s visit to Lane’s End. Ann and Jerry went to see Zenyatta and her colt with bags of carrots in tow. Both Z and her son are doing well, enjoying the crisp Kentucky fall air. Zenyatta is healthy and happy, and 12Z is growing fast!

Enjoy!
-Team Z

Photo by Alys Emson/Lane’s End


Photo by Alys Emson/Lane’s End


Photo by Alys Emson/Lane’s End


Photo by Alys Emson/Lane’s End


Photo by Alys Emson/Lane’s End


Photo by Alys Emson/Lane’s End


Photo by Alys Emson/Lane’s End


Photo by Alys Emson/Lane’s End


Photo by Alys Emson/Lane’s End

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    It’s Victoria writing to thank everyone for the birthday wishes. I had a great birthday and got everything I asked for. I have plenty of horror movies to watch now that I have a 24 disc DVD collection full of them. I’m looking forward to it. ]

    Happy Holidays everyone. :)

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      Happy Birthday, Vic! I’m sure your grandmother will make sure you have a very special day. I hope to meet you some time soon, either here in Kentucky or at Saratoga.

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      Dear Vic,

      It’s my Mom’s birthday too. It’s funny, I hate horror movies but my Mom loved them! I’m glad you had a fun birthday. Like many others here, I can’t wait to meet you in person! I’ve threatened your grandmother that one of these days I’ll end up on her doorstep with my sleeping bag under my arm. Wheee! Sleep over party!

      Keep up the good work in your studies and practicum work. YOU ROCK!

      Love and hugs, diastu in tempe

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      So glad you had a great day, Vic and enjoy those horror movie, they were my
      favorites, too.

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    Keta Note: Animal Kingdom is going to be one busy boy! Races in US, Dubai, & maybe the Royal Ascot. Then on to Australia. Very ambitious schedule.

    Animal Kingdom to Stand in Australia in 2013
    By Blood-Horse Staff Updated: Thursday, December 13, 2012 5:17 PM

    A majority interest in the breeding rights of champion Animal Kingdom, winner of the 2011 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) for Team Valor International, has been acquired by John Messara’s Australia-based Arrowfield Stud

    The son of Leroidesanimaux will begin his stud career in Australia next September and will likely shuttle to the Northern Hemisphere beginning in 2014. According to statistics, Animal Kingdom will be the first Kentucky Derby winner to start his stud career in Australia.

    The deal is subject to Animal Kingdom passing importation protocols, which involve blood work that should be finalized in the next few days.

    The 20 Team Valor International partners will maintain a significant interest in Animal Kingdom’s stud career. Most recently a runner-up to Wise Dan in the Nov. 3 Breeders’ Cup Mile (gr. I), Animal Kingdom is slated to contest the Feb. 9 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (gr. I) as a prep for the $10-million Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) March 31.

    Following the World Cup, Animal Kingdom, who is out of the Acatenango mare Dalicia, will be flown from Dubai to England and considered for an additional start, possibly at Royal Ascot in June.

    “Animal Kingdom excites us as a rare kind of athlete with a truly international pedigree who is able to express his class on a range of surfaces,” said Messara in a statement. “He is already rated among the world’s elite turf milers and has the potential to become a global superstar in 2013.”
    Read more on BloodHorse.com: http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/75045/animal-kingdom-to-stand-in-australia-in-2013#ixzz2EypXbGPC

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    Champion Awesome Feather retired by Adena Springs
    By DRF Breeding Staff 12/13/2012 4:21PM
    Awesome Feather, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2010, has been retired, Adena Springs Farm announced on Thursday.
    Breeding plans have not yet been decided for Awesome Feather, a 4-year-old Awesome of Course filly, who will begin her broodmare career at Adena owner Frank Stronach’s farm in Paris, Ky.
    Awesome Feather concluded her career with 10 victories from 11 starts for earnings of $1,912,746. Her only loss came when she ran sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic Nov. 2 at Santa Anita Park in her final career start.
    http://www.drf.com/news/champion-awesome-feather-retired-adena-springs

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      Jockey World & Jockey World Radio tweet AWESOME FEATHER RETIRED
      As of today, the 2010 Champion 2-year-old Filly AWESOME FEATHER has been retired. Even though a tendon injury sidelined her for almost a year, she still returned to the races like she hadn’t missed a beat.
      Such a talented filly with an equal amount of heart.
      We’ll miss watching her run!

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    Zenny and 12Z, today is National Day of the Horse. We hope you are enjoying the day and getting lots of love and treats.

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      Sue and Tony,

      Posted a couple of days ago a great tibute to the Day of the Horse done
      by HRTV tonight, hope you are able to watch.

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    Calvin Borel Still Waiting for 5000
    RobertYatesADG tweet
    Calvin Borel 3rd with both mounts Thu. at Fair Grounds;
    has 4,998 career wins.
    Not expected to ride again until #Oaklawn opens Jan. 11
    Keta Note; Calvin Borel usually takes time off at this time of year

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    December 13, 1913 – April 17, 1977

    Not a day goes by that I don’t think of your gift of life to me.
    I hope you’d be proud of what I’ve become
    And would continue to overlook my missteps along the way.
    You see all these people who post here?
    They would all love you as I do, and I bet you’d love them back.
    They are a pretty incredible bunch –
    All brought together by a pretty incredible horse, Zenyatta.
    You’d be proud of all the good things we’ve done in her name.
    I know if you were still with me, you’d be hip to hip with us.
    Actually, maybe you are.
    There is a young one who shares your birthday and
    We celebrate her here today.
    Keep watch for her for us – she is a special one.

    Love, your proud daughter, Diana

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    Hi all, Team Z and my favorites Ann & Jerry; This the most wonderful emotional surprise to see these priceless pictures! My wish came true and even better, Ann was with Zenyatta. I had such tears of happiness for them both as one can not miss the love there is between them. I would love to have a couple on my wall. 12z is getting big! I wonder if he remembers Ann from early on.
    Thank you for these pictures, I feel truly blessed to see my love of my lifetime Zenyatta and to know all is going so well for both Z and 12z. Ann looks marvelous too!

    Sending love N kisses on Z’s soft nose, one to 12z as well. Auntie Sally
    I have to go back and look at the pics again!!

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    Dear Zenny Fans, Dumplings and All,

    God’s Angels guard and keep you
    All the way that you must travel
    Till earth’s days are past
    When blossoms fade and
    Time is fleeting fast
    In times of purest joy
    Or pain and fear
    God’s Angels guard
    And keep you safe.

    Have a blessed day and safe trips for our
    Equines racing this weekend.

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    BLOODHORSE: ANIMAL KINGDOM TO STAND IN AUSTRALIA
    (Kathy R, you get one of our Derby winners)

    Animal Kingdom to Stand in Australia
    By Blood-Horse Staff
    Updated: Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:09 PM
    Posted: Thursday, December 13, 2012 4:33 PM

    Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt
    Animal Kingdom wins the 2011 Kentucky Derby.
    A majority interest in the breeding rights of champion Animal Kingdom, winner of the 2011 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) for Team Valor International, has been acquired by John Messara’s Australia-based Arrowfield Stud.

    The son of Leroidesanimaux out of the Acatenango mare Dalicia will begin his stud career in Australia next September and will likely shuttle to the Northern Hemisphere beginning in 2014. According to statistics, Animal Kingdom will be the first Kentucky Derby winner to start his stud career in Australia.

    The deal is subject to Animal Kingdom passing importation protocols, which involve blood work that should be finalized in the next few days.

    The 20 Team Valor International partners will maintain a significant interest in Animal Kingdom’s stud career. Most recently a runner-up to Wise Dan in the Nov. 3 Breeders’ Cup Mile (gr. I), Animal Kingdom is slated to contest the Feb. 9 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (gr. I) as a prep for the $10 million Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) March 31.

    Following the World Cup, Animal Kingdom is to be flown from Dubai to England and considered for an additional start, possibly at Royal Ascot in June.

    “Animal Kingdom excites us as a rare kind of athlete with a truly international pedigree who is able to express his class on a range of surfaces,” said Messara in a statement. “He is already rated among the world’s elite turf milers and has the potential to become a global superstar in 2013.”

    Team Valor CEO Barry Irwin has fielded a stream of offers for Animal Kingdom’s stud career ever since the Kentucky Derby, in which he prevailed by 2 3/4 lengths as the first horse to conquer the classic in his initial start on dirt. He stands to be the only Derby-winning stallion prospect to race as a 5-year-old since Silver Charm, who scored in the 1997 Run for the Roses.

    “Originally it was our intention to race Animal Kingdom for the entire 2013 season,” Irwin said in a release. “However, the prospect of getting the support of John Messara’s Arrowfield Stud in the Southern Hemisphere was so meaningful that I advised my partners to sublimate their fun and take the deal.

    “It is critically important to get a history-making stallion master behind a new prospect and in John Messara we have that. He has developed two of the world’s most successful sires in Danehill and his son, Redoute’s Choice. No way was I going to pass up this opportunity.”

    Robin Bruss of Northfields Bloodstock brokered the deal.

    Team Valor will form broodmare partnerships to breed to Animal Kingdom, with the plan of selling and racing his offspring around the globe.

    Trained by Graham Motion, Animal Kingdom is a graded stakes winner on both dirt and synthetic surfaces. The colt entered the BC Mile off a 259-day layoff and finished in front of the prominent European horses Excelebration and Moonlight Cloud.

    Animal Kingdom also finished second in the 2011 Preakness Stakes (gr. I). He has finished first or second in eight of his nine career starts, the lone exception coming in the Belmont Stakes (gr. I) when he was sandwiched after the break and nearly went down, leading to eight months on the sidelines with an injury. He has earned $2,327,500.

    Read more on BloodHorse.com: http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/75045/animal-kingdom-to-stand-in-australia#ixzz2F1ngVdHQ

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    MARKETWATCH, BLOODHORSE: AP INDY SIRE LINE LOSES LEADING HEIR PULPIT

    A.P. Indy Sire Line Loses Leading Heir Pulpit
    12 Dec 2012 9:26 AM

    (By Avalyn Hunter)
    Claiborne’s famed stallion cemetery now has one more tenant. If Pulpit was not the equal of the likes of Nijinsky II, Danzig, and Mr. Prospector as a sire, he nonetheless had an honorable record. Through his son Tapit (currently fourth on the general sire list), he has also succeeded in securing the future of the Seattle Slew/A.P. Indy sire line for another generation and perhaps even establishing his own branch, no small accomplishment in itself. Other sons, most notably Sky Mesa and Stroll, have sired some good runners, and Corinthian is currently seventh on the second-crop sire list.

    Somewhat surprisingly given his own beautiful pedigree and the quality of the mares that he saw, Pulpit has not yet made the splash as a broodmare sire that might have been expected. But he has been represented this year as a maternal grandsire by Ashland Stakes (gr. I) winner Karlovy Vary, multiple grade II winner Newsdad, and Canadian grade II winner Imboundtoscore. Given that Pulpit’s eldest daughters are only 13, there are bound to be more where those came from.

    With two sons of Pulpit (Parading and Stroll) on its roster, Pulpit will not soon be forgotten at Claiborne, nor will the farm be in any hurry to rush out and secure a successor. Nonetheless, his loss will be felt in the months to come. May he rest well in greener pastures than even Kentucky offers.

    Filed under: Pulpit, Tapit, Stroll, Thoroughbred sires, Thoroughbred Stud Farms, Avalyn Hunter

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    Lol, I am a bit confused why all the posts keep coming to this blog when there is a new one, but oh well, as long as we all find everyone.

    I just found out a party my husband and I are hosting tomorrow night for his birthday, which I thought was for about 15 people is now for 50 people. I am a little stressed, to say the least. Gotta go, have much to do, but I will be watching Ebby race tomorrow, no matter what.

    Love to all. Have a great weekend.

    Zenyatta and 12Z, you are my angels, you bring me such joy and peace, I love you forever.

    Darlene

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      Darlene,
      I think it’s because the new post was “merchandise only” and/or people don’t want to stop writing on this spectacular photo display :-)
      Sandy

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      Good luck, Darlene, 50 is a lot more than 15! Although maybe people come and go more. With enough food, it can all work out ok. People can pitch in and help.

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      I bet it will be a wonderful party.
      Enjoy yourself and if you get a bit frazzled…think of Zenny and smile!
      Happy Birthday ,Hubby of Darlene.

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      Dear Darlene,
      Things do get confusing when new posts come
      out. You will definately be the Hostess with the
      Mostest at your party. And agree, who cares about
      the silverware, it is all about friends and fun. Wishing
      you the best party ever !!!!! Will be thinking about you!!

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    What lovely pictures of Ann, Jerry, Zenny and Z12. Such a display of love between humans and horses. Although I think Zenny is part person. Z12 is so big but still cute.
    He clearly has inherited his mother’s love of Ann and Jerry.

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    Contentious CashCall Futurity Set Saturday
    By Jack Shinar The Blood-Horse
    Updated: Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:54 PM
    He’s Had Enough, who missed by a head winning the Grey Goose Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I) last month, and Nashua Stakes (gr. II) victor Violence square off against a quartet from the Bob Baffert barn in the $750,000 CashCall Futurity (gr. I) Dec. 12 at Betfair Hollywood Park
    Eleven 2-year-olds are entered in what shapes up as a terrific running of the final major 2-year-old test of the year nationally. Contested at 1 1/16 miles on the Cushion Track, the CashCall Futurity is part of a program that includes the $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup (gr. IIT). The Futurity is the ninth on the penultimate card of the 2012 autumn meet with a probable post time of 4:35 p.m. PST.

    Baffert has won three of the past four CashCall Futurity renewals and has captured a record six overall (the race was previously known as the Hollywood Futurity). The Hall of Fame conditioner will be represented this year by stakes winners Den’s Legacy, Carving, and Really Mr Greely, as well as Title Contender. Baffert decided to start all four colts after each worked extremely well Dec. 9 and 10 at Santa Anita Park.
    The Baffert-trained Really Mr Greely was an impressive gate-to-wire winner of the seven-furlong Hollywood Prevue (gr. III) Nov. 22 at odds of 11-1, earning a 98 Beyer speed figure, the best in this year’s Futurity field. Owned by Karl Watson, Mike Pegram, and Paul Weitman, the son of Horse Greeley will need to answer the distance question this time, having never been longer than seven furlongs. The Kentucky-bred colt has won his past two starts and will be ridden for the first time by Mike Smith

    $750,000 CashCall Futurity (gr. I, Race 9, 4:35 p.m.), 2YOs, 1 1/16 Miles (All Weather)
    PP. Horse, Jockey, Trainer
    1. He’s Had Enough (KY), M Gutierrez, D F O’Neill
    2. Den’s Legacy (FL), G K Gomez, B Baffert
    3. Dirty Swagg (KY), T Baze, M K Cho
    4. Carving (KY), M Garcia, B Baffert
    5. Fury Kapcori (KY), J Talamo, J Hollendorfer
    6. Violence (KY), J Castellano, T A Pletcher
    7. Simon Eyes (KY), V Espinoza, W A Ward
    8. Really Mr Greely (KY), M E Smith, B Baffert
    9. Title Contender (KY), R Bejarano, B Baffert
    10. Little Jerry (KY), A T Gryder, R Baltas
    11. Oxbow (KY), C S Nakatani, D W Lukas

    Read more on BloodHorse.com: http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/75031/contentious-cashcall-futurity-set-saturday#ixzz2F3B09VQY

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      Title Contender is owned by Gary and Mary West who also owned a horse named Dollar Bill some years ago. The first horse that I can remember that had his own website. Unfortunately, Dollar Bill died very young, at 4 I think.

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    Santa Anita: My Miss Aurelia to start in La Brea
    By Steve Andersen Daily Racing Form 12/13/2012 5:13PM
    My Miss Aurelia, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2011 who suffered her first loss when second in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic on Nov. 2, will make her next start in the $300,000 La Brea Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Santa Anita on Dec. 26
    Trained by Steve Asmussen, My Miss Aurelia has won 6 of 7 starts and $2,386,000, all for owners George Bolton and Stonestreet Stable. In the BC Ladies’ Classic, she finished second by 1 1/2 lengths to Royal Delta, closing from fifth in a field of eight.
    Since the Breeders’ Cup, My Miss Aurelia has had three workouts at Santa Anita, including five furlongs in 59 seconds Wednesday, the fastest of 31 recorded works at the distance.
    http://www.drf.com/news/santa-anita-my-miss-aurelia-start-la-brea

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    Another unbelievable school shooting
    Prayers for the families dealing with this tragedy in Connecticut.
    Current reports say 27 dead. 18 are children.
    Heartbroken!
    Keta

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      Keta and All the Z-Peeps:

      Terrible sad day in CT, we are in complete morning, 18 children possibly a whole kindergarten class has died. Along with 9 adults, well 8 if you don’t count the gunman.
      Please say a prayer or lite a candle for these children and their parents during this horrific time,. The news is saying it was a young parent who brought such horror to this beautiful small town in our great state, it has just also been reported that they went to the shooter’s home and found another dead body.

      I can only imagine what these parents are going through, several years ago my daughter was taken hostage in her classroom by an emotionally disturbed child, I was at work when by boss gave me the news (because I was too busy to take the call myself), I ran out of my office like my hair was on fire, I drove like a lunatic even though I worked close to my daughter’s elementary school, what a scene when I got there, police, firemen, teachers and kids, all outside. The young boy about 7 or 8 was not armed or considered dangerous, just frustrated and angry at the teacher, my daughter and this boy were friends, so I truly believed he didn’t want to hurt her, and he didn’t. My daughter had learning disabilities, and so did this boy, but this particular teacher only liked the “gifted” and smart kids, not the ones that maybe needed a little extra help or attention. (This was the only teacher my daughter ever had that I really didn’t like) I know there are a lot of teacher’s on this site, I have nothing but respect and admiration for all of you, but sometimes, teachers and students don’t mess well. (This was one of those times!)

      With a very heavy heart my deepest sympathy to all the families in Newtown, CT.

      Saddened GirlSaratoga

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        Eight, the gunman deserves no recognition as a human being. He killed children. Some children I am only seven years older than. Sometimes, when things like this happen, I wish to fall asleep and not wake up. What is happening to the world?

        • 18 Children, 6 Adults, gunman and then, another at an undisclosed area in NJ. This is horrific!

        • It’s one of the brothers, the other died in front of the school. A columnist on BBC Reports that everyone in the gunman’s mother’s class was killed. Poor, beautiful things, they were so full of life and potential. It killed children, and it’s entire family. (I won’t call it him or he because that implies that it is human, which it was not.)

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    Final Entry Notification
    Eblouissante is entered on December 15, 2012 at BETFAIR HOLLYWOOD PARK.
    Race: 4 – 2:02 PM
    ALLOWANCE OPTIONAL CLAIMING $40,000
    Purse: $ 48,000. (Plus $14,400 – CBOIF – California Bred Owner Fund)For Fillies And Mares Three Years Old And Upward Which Have Never Won $10,000 Once Other Than Maiden, Claiming Or Starter Or Which Have Never Won Two Races Or Claiming Price $40,000. Three Year Olds, 121 Lbs.; Older, 124 Lbs. Non-winners Of A Race Otherthan Claiming or Starter at a mile or over Allowed 2 lbs. A race other than Claiming or Starter for any distance Allowed 4 lbs. Claiming Price $40,000.
    One And One Sixteenth Miles. (All Weather Track)

    PP Horse A/S Med Claim $ Jockey Wgt
    3 Eblouissante 3/F L $ 0 Corey S. Nakatani 121

    Trainer John A. Shirreffs

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      JOHN SHIRREFFS & EBLOUISSANTE
      Ed DeRosa‏ tweet John Shirreffs is the master.
      I don’t know how he did it, but Eblouissante had another 46 workouts
      between her debut & 2nd career start

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    I know that this is usually a happy place but, in times of tragedy, we need to come together to console one another. I woke up to the news and sat there, in shock! Haven’t been able to get away from the tv since. I don’t know what else to say. There are no words. Only one: Tragedy!
    My Heart, thoughts and prayers go out to everyone that in one way or another has been affected by this. Especially, the surviving children and their parents, faculty that will have to live with this the rest of their lives. God Bless their souls!

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      Heidi
      Holding you and all who are mourning in my heart
      It is so senseless-so unexplainable
      Praying with you
      Heartbroken, Keta

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        I, too, will spend most of the day in silence, and will take my Bible and my rosary, and I will pray for the families. I don’t do this often, but it is time to do so now.

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    CONFIRMED:

    20 children are dead, 6 adults, the gunman and 1 to 2 others in a Newtown Home. The death toll has risen from 3 to 12 to 27 now to 29!

    God Please watch over these families and may the angels protect them.

    A Sad GirlSaratoga

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        Pati:

        It’s not his 24 year brother because he is in custody at the Newtown Police Dept. Confirmed it is the shooter’s mother and possibly another? They are being very tight lipped. Too much to sort out with 2 crime scenes. Our state has cancelled almost everything state wide, from tree lighting, to plays, to parties. Flags flying at half mask already! No celebrating in this state anytime soon.

        GirlSaratoga

        • I wouldn’t celebrate either. I read on BBC that one of the brothers died at the school? Is maybe this the brother they are talking about, and perhaps he escaped before the bedlam broke out? Either way, mother was killed in her home, and now a mystery body in another house. This thing has committed two taboos, it killed it’s mother, and innocent children. How horrible, and devastating. Drains you of all your energy.

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    dear z family am so dreadfully sorry to hear about the shooting in newtown CT my sympathy and prayers are with all caught up in another senseless shooting God be with you gunman only 20 mother worked in school love and hugs sheena

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    Lets keep the children and their families, the teachers and their families, the principal and her family in our prayers.

    And thank you so much, Barbara Wood for the story on Magna Fortuna. It renews my faith in humanity.

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    Just terrible news. Children packed off to school, eagerly awaiting the Christmas break. Defenseless little ones gunned down by evil. Prayers for the bereaved and those who provide services (counseling, funeral homes, etc.) to be sensitive and compassionate.

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    Today…sad,sad. Keeping all of those folks in my prayers and hugging my loved ones even tighter tonight.

    Thank you Team Z for providing this kind,warm and beautiful place for us to visit.It makes the world much brighter.
    Blessings to all.

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      Dear Everyone: I can only send my love and prayers to you all at this dreadful time. Please take care of each other. KathyR.

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    Like so many others we gravitated to this site and this particular blog after hearing of the horrible shooting in Ct. There are no words that can help the hurt and anger but looking at these pictures helps us realize there is good in the world. Hugs to all who visit here and especially Team Z.

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      Marty R:

      Thanks for finding the candle site and posting it. Our Gov. has asked that we turn our porch lights on for all who died in today’s school shooting, so they may find their way home. I will still lite a candle here too.

      Thanks Again

      GirlSaratoga

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        Dear GirlSaratoga: We have turned our porch light on over here in Canberra, Australia. Godbless and hugs. KathyR (and husband).

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      Dear Marty R,
      Thanks so much for starting the candel lighting
      for those who survived and were slain in Connecticut.
      a very sad day !!!!

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        Sign, I can’t take credit for the candle site. I hunted around the Gratefulness Candles and finally found a search term that worked. As much as I like the candles, you would think I would know how to set up a candle site, but I don’t.

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