When was zenyatta foal born

Latest Newscasts. Gray DC Bureau. Investigate TV. Zenyatta's first foal a handful. By John Boel and Charles Gazaway. Published: May. Share on Facebook. Email This Link. Share on Twitter. Share on Pinterest. It brings us such joy to see them bonding in their paddock on this beautiful day. Zenyatta has produced three previous registered foals. Her first two, Cozmic One by Bernardini and Ziconic by Tapit , were born in and , respectively.

Both have been retired to second careers as off-track Thoroughbreds. Zenyatta aborted an Into Mischief foal in before being bred to Candy Ride the following year. The breeding schedule of most mares is rigorous.

The gestation period is 11 months, then the mare is generally bred again after 30 days. Meanwhile, the mare stays with her newborn for five months, meaning she will already be in foal to another sire while caring for the one just born. Zenyatta also likes people, who invariably end up patting her.

The Mosses keep tight control on who can see the mare but will occasionally raffle or auction off chances to meet her for charity. Moss get out of the car.

Jerry and Ann will be back soon to see Zenyatta when she delivers her foal. More good parenting. John Cherwa is a special contributor to the Los Angeles Times. He rejoined The Times in and left his post as deputy sports editor late in Currently, his major coverage area is horse racing, where he writes our Racing!

After covering nine straight Olympics, he is helping with the Times Olympics coverage but from stateside. He is also an adjunct professor on the business of sports media at the University of Central Florida.

UCLA Sports. High School Sports. The farm had presented the couple with special personalized navy-blue coveralls for the occasion, according to Zenyatta. In keeping with their usual habit, the Mosses had not fetal-sexed the foal during Zenyatta's pregnancy. Zenyatta is the second of two female Horses of the Year to have a first foal this year. On Jan. Zenyatta was first bred on Feb.

Indy, a champion 3-year-old in But in March a routine scan revealed that she had lost that pregnancy, and she was bred again to Bernardini in early April. The Mosses kept her early pregnancy status quiet until about 60 days later, when Zenyatta. Zenyatta is the only female to win the Breeders' Cup Classic. She did that in en route to her title as the year's champion older female.