LEXINGTON, Ky. – Zenyatta is in foal.

The 7-year-old Street Cry mare’s pregnancy appeared on an ultrasound scan Thursday morning, 15 days after her mating to Bernardini. Such scans are routine for mares at around two weeks past breeding in order to identify whether the mare is carrying an embryo.

Dottie Ingordo-Shirreffs, wife of Zenyatta’s former trainer John Shirreffs and racing manager for the mare’s owners Ann and Jerry Moss, announced the pregnancy on a diary that purports to be written by Zenyatta.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Horse of the Year Zenyatta was bred to Bernardini on Wednesday at about 8 a.m., according to a notice posted on Zenyatta.com.

That site is maintained Dottie Ingordo Shirreffs, the racing manager for Zenyatta’s owners Ann and Jerry Moss and the wife of Zenyatta’s trainer John Shirreffs.

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Owner: Ann and Jerry Moss

Trainer: John Shirreffs

Breeder: Maverick Productions, Limited

Career record: 20-19-1-0

Earnings: $7,304,580

Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. And that’s about as far into the very old song as this writer is willing to go, especially since there is nothing about the mating of two Thoroughbred horses that has anything remotely to do with falling in love.

LEXINGTON, Ky. − As the Thoroughbred world speculates about what a Bernardini-Zenyatta foal might look like, there are a handful of people in the sport who already have an inkling.

This possible hint of things to come is named Eblouissante, and she is Zenyatta’s 2-year-old half-sister by Bernardini – the closest thing available to the mating cross Ann and Jerry Moss are planning for their reigning Horse of the Year.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Bernardini will be bred to 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta in late February at the earliest, Zenyatta’s owner, Jerry Moss, said on Friday.

“It depends on her, but we’d like [the mating] to be at the end of February,” Moss said at Santa Anita, where he and his wife Ann had horses running in two races.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Ann and Jerry Moss, owners of 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta, announced Wednesday that their wildly popular 7-year-old mare will be bred to Bernardini for her first mating.

NEW YORK – The Eclipse Award winners of 2010 may have unwittingly set a precedent: Lose your last race or two and be declared the best in your division.

ARCADIA, Calif. – A little after 6:30 last Monday evening, in her modest home in the shadow of the Tehachapi Mountains northeast of Los Angeles, Priscilla Clark was pulling a pizza out of her oven when the phones began to ring, her cell and then her hard line. Her first thought was the same first thought that occurs to anyone living in a deeply rural outpost, far from ready access to the services the rest of us take for granted.

“I thought the neighbor’s house was on fire,” Clark said, the neighbor in this isolated ’hood being a mile or so distant.

Penny Chenery, the owner of two-time Horse of the Year Secretariat, has created a “Secretariat Vox Populi Award” that will annually “recognize a horse whose popularity and racing excellence best resounded with the American public and gained recognition for the sport during the past year,” according to an announcement Chenery distributed on Wednesday.