Even for a horse with a habit of leaving it late, the giant filly’s rampaging finish sent Santa Anita Park into raptures
Santa Anita Park, on the eastern side of Los Angeles, sits in the shadow of the majestic San Gabriel mountains. It was a regular haunt of Bing Crosby, Cary Grant and Errol Flynn, and the Marx Brothers’ movie A Day At The Races was filmed at the track. Nothing that had happened there, though, could compare to Zenyatta’s performance on 7 November 2009.
I first saw this gigantic filly, 17.2 hands, 12 months earlier when she was breezing home in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic at the same track. She had the physique of no filly I had seen before, or since, and could run like the wind. A year on she would surely need to, because this time she was to go up against the colts and no filly had won the Breeders’ Cup Classic, the richest prize in American racing at $5m.
Written by John O’Hara
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