Zenyatta - 2009 Vanity Handicap
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A 129-pound impost wasn't enough to stop the undefeated champion Zenyatta, who earned a repeat win in the $287,000 Vanity Handicap (gr. I)at Hollywood Park June 27 for her 11th consecutive victory.
In her familiar come-from-behind style, the imposing 5-year-old mare rallied from fourth at the top of the stretch under jockey Mike Smith to draw off in the final sixteenth en route to a 2 1/2-length victory over the pacesetter Briecat on Hollywood's Cushion Track. She was the 3-10 favorite in the field of six older fillies and mares.
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With all of the recent goings on with PETA and Asmussen and Gary Stevens ref buzzers, it makes me wonder if Briecat was buzzed mid to late stretch in this race. Watch her. She's on the rail and suddenly jerks her left side almost into the rail and takes off. As an aside, she sure is a tiny thing.
Zenyatta carried a boulder while the rest of the Vanity field carried a brick in this race, and they still couldn't take her down. It was the first, but certainly not the last time that Zenyatta was ask to carry a whole lot more weight than her rivals.