The 1,200 pound filly finished second by a nose hair to a horse named Blame on Sunday, November 7 in the Breeders Cup race at Louisville, Kentucky's Churchill Downs, her last race in a career in which she had been 19-0. One racing writer called the finish "fleeting, exquisite agony."
Here are four reasons Zenyatta will race again:
Zenyatta needs to race again to finish the movie. You know, Seabiscuit. Secretariat. These movies ended with a win, not a loss. There have been very few successful movies where the good guys get stomped. The Empire Strikes Back is the only one that comes to mind.
Zenyatta needs to race again because most of the world hadn't heard of her until they were told that there was a horse racing her final race who was undefeated. So her marketing moment is now. Now, my third grade daughter is doing her current events report on Zenyatta. Three weeks ago, she would probably have thought the word the name of a flower.
Zenyatta will race again because she was supposed to retire after her 19th win, but ended up racing again. Co-owner Jerry Moss said he shouldn't have said he'd retire her after that race, because "I retired her without speaking to my wife, and that was a big mistake."
Zenyatta needs to race again so that the fee for her foal goes from astronomical to twice astronomical.
And the last reason is, she drinks Guinness. Heck, the Guinness people at Diageo should offer her owners $1 million to let her race one more time. The Guinness Stakes, they could call it.
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