Zenyatta in foal to Candy Ride

The owners of Zenyatta confirmed on Tuesday that the 2010 Horse of the Year is in foal to Candy Ride and believed to be carrying a filly. Zenyatta is boarded at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky, which also stands Candy Ride, the sire of champions Gun Runner and Shared Belief.

Zenyatta, a 15-year-old Street Cry mare, has yet to produce a winner, and has been plagued by some bad luck as a broodmare. The mare’s sons Cozmic One and Ziconic went winless in a combined 17 starts, and are both now in training as sporthorses, with Cozmic One competing in last year’s Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Makeover. Zenyatta’s 2014 filly died as a weanling in a paddock accident; her 2016 colt died days after his birth due to complications from aspirating meconium; and the mare aborted what would have been her 2018 foal to the cover of Into Mischief.

The most recent living foal out of Zenyatta, who was not bred for the 2015 or 2019 seasons, is Zellda, a 2-year-old Medaglia d’Oro filly. The filly is in training but has yet to post an official work.

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