We know you’ve all been waiting for more photos!
Team Z and Lane’s End are proud to share these images from the birth of Zenyatta’s second colt. Based on the response we’ve received, it seems that the world is as excited as we are.
We had a spectacular day on the farm, and we are saying our goodbyes for now. Mom and her little one are now relaxing, bonding, and spending some quiet time alone.
There are still more photos from this trip to come. We’ll post again soon with news about 13Z and his older brother!
Enjoy!
-Team Z
Dani
Awwwww he is adorable! I am planning on buying one of Zenyattas foals! I can not wait!
Louise Castello
I don’t think they will be for sale!
vicky
Breyer horse I think you mean.
Sam
I dont think their selling any of them lol
Kelli
Not likely to ever be for sale.. and if they are, the price tag would definitely be six figures or more, haha
luvscritters
Six figures? I suspect it would take seven figures to outbid all the other people who would be trying to buy one!
Beautiful mare, beautiful baby.
Susan Campagnone
Congratulations Zenyatta, Jerry & Ann, another beautiful foal.
Also thanks to Lands end that take such good care of Z and family.
Amber Sorensen
Just precious! Thank you for sharing your exciting day with all of us!!!
lil bunny foo foo
Such joy! Such love! Thanks for sharing these beautiful photos!
♥ Smiling Auntie Judy aka JAG / So. Calif. ♥
♥ Baby! ♥ Baby! ♥ Baby! You are so adorable and so loved, Sweetie! XO
Love, Auntie Judy
lindal
Outstanding! Congratulations to one and all . Fantastic photos. Many thanks for all you do for us! God bless always.
Cindi
Ahhhhhh! Thanks for the “fix”. He is beautiful and leggy! She is as lovely and dabbled as ever. Thank you for understanding the waiting fans and keeping us so up to date.
Bridget
Thank you so much for the sweet photos! 13Z is so cute with mom taking good care of him!
Kate
Oh my goooooodnesssss he’s darling!! Thank you all so much for these wonderful pictures and for keeping us in the loop! Much love to mama Z and the little prince!
Gloria
Gorgeous pictures! Thank you, Team Z! Zenyatta looks like such a great mother.
Lori
Lovely photos. Thank you so much for sharing. I’m happy both came out of it well and are doing ok. Will there be video? I sure hope so :-)
Cindi
Ahhhhhh! Thanks for the “fix”. He is beautiful AND leggy! She is as dabbled and fantastic as ever.
Nancy A Stamp
Wow! Thank you so much. What a thrill.
LauraJ (Cincinnati, OH)
Sweet. She is such a good mom.
Jan Hallman
What a surprise and a birthday present. Zen’s April Fool…..what a perfect name for the little wonder. In my eyes we now have Z’s Full Moon Prince (Z12 has a full moon on forehead) and now Zen’s April Fool. She is doing well as a mommy. Good Luck to all and Lane’s End. Best place of all to be.
Linda Shull
Love the pictures!!! She and baby are beautiful.
Kim R
So amazing :) And so happy to see the bond starting already!! Thanks for the updates, they make my day!
Marsha Baumgartner
What a good Mom she is! So loving. Thank you Team Z for these pix, can’t wait to see more. Thank you Mr and Mrs Moss for sharing Zenny and her family with the world. Tap Your Zen?
Ronni
Such wonderful first photos of mama and baby boy!!! Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful moments!!!
Max
13Z is a big, beautiful and well developed newborn foal. He looks wonderful. The Queen is as serene as ever. She does everything so calmy to perfection and with absolute kindness. What a role model that she is.
Debbie
Thank you for sharing with us, what a cutie!!! Z is so happy and that makes me happy!
Edie Dickenson
Thank you, Team Z, for all that you do for Zenyatta, her colts, and her fans! It is obvious that she takes to motherhood like she takes to everything: perfectly and exquisitely!
Louise Castello
Thank you so much Team Zenyatta! These are spectacular!!!!! They are both perfect!!!
KatiefromCali
Beautiful!! What a fabulous mom! So happy for Z and her whole team! Hurraaaaaaaay!!!
Donna Schlarman
One can just feel the love coming from this mother and her innocent charge. You are the envy of millions and I thank you so very much for sharing your precious gifts with us.
Peace
lizzie
Beautiful and Big!!!! How on earth did she push him out!!! BTW, is a 145lb an usually big foal?
And thank you again to LE and Team Moss for the beautiful pictures.:))
Helen Rasmussen
THANK YOU for posting these precious pictures of our Queen and her new royal one! She is such a good Mama and so typical of her to pull this April Fools baby off along with her birthday!!! I imagine Anne is over the top! Big hugs and best wishes to all! xxxxxxoooooo <3 <3
Nikki
These pics make me think he will stay chestnut! Wow, it’s so hard to tell! Thank you sooooo much for sharing.
Alex Bowdoin in MA
THANK YOU so much for posting these photo’s for us Z’s fans……We Dumplings are so pleased to see this little guy…..He is BEAUTIFUL….Z is a Great Mom!! HUGS TO ALL
Anne Phinney
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful occasion with all of Z’s fans. It is a warm gust on a bitter cold day!
A.P.
Nancy in Fresno
Thank you for keeping us in the loop. We know how busy you are, and we appreciate it. Happy to see that Z is just as dappled as she was when racing. She’s a big, healthy girl and loving mom. What are the chances that baby 2013 will turn gray?
Cindi
Maybe a red roam? Is that possible? Big red horses are pretty darn wonderful though…
Kelli
No, red roan is not possible. Roan is dominant, you need to have a roan parent to have a roan foal and neither of 13Z’s parents are roan. He will either stay chestnut or go gray.
vicky
But I understand that the Jockey club calls all ‘grey’ horses ‘grey or roan’. I think they got rid of the option of just ‘grey’.
Kelli
@Vicky – yes, that is true. The Jockey Club’s definitions are that gray is the mixture of black or near-black hairs and white hairs, and roan is the mixture of red hairs and white hairs.
That description is 100% dead wrong.
Roan is a completely different gene, unrelated to gray. There are only a handful of TRUE roan thoroughbreds and they are all in Australia, descended from the chimeric brindle Catch A Bird. All the “roan” thoroughbreds in the states are gray, or more uncommonly, rabicano.
Diana Stuart Catch A Bird
Hi Kelli: Catch A Bird is a Brindle not a roan. I need to go back to some recent info on him to see if the brindle color (yes, it probably was a mutation) has a DNA test or not, but he does not carry a roan gene.
Fun stuff, yes?
diastu in tempe
Diana Stuart Catch A Bird
Sorry Kelli – I hit send before reading your other comment about him being a Chimeric brindle. But the question I would have on his offspring is – aren’t they just exhibiting a spectrum of the brindle pattern and not suddenly “roan”?
diastu in tempe
Kelli
Diana – Nope. There are a couple different brindling patterns seen in horses. Catch A Bird was a chimeric brindle – that is, two fertilized eggs or two embryos which at some point fused during gestation, resulting in only one offspring. Because the two embryos have two different genetic makeups, when they fuse you can get some interesting results. Chimeric horses express in different ways, sometimes in brindling like CAB’s, sometimes in big paint-like splotches. For CAB, he appears to have been the result of a regular bay embryo fusing with the embryo of a foal with a random mutation.. for roan. Roan would certainly explain why his stripes were white instead of chestnut or bay or black – roan has a much lighter body. Unfortunately CAB has died and there was no testing done on the brindle hairs’ DNA.
However, he indisputably sired phenotypically roan offspring that pass it on very much like true roan. They are not brindles. Chimeric brindle is not hereditable – because chimerism requires two embryos, in horses that comes down to the mare. The roan color definitely comes from the sire in this case. They cannot be brindle. I remember reading that one of his descendants (Possibly Slip Catch?) was tested and confirmed as Rn – roan.
Here’s a bay roan FRAME OVERO filly, great granddaughter of Catch A Bird: http://www.winningcoloursfarm.com.au/foals.htm