Zenyatta News

Diver52 · Sun Apr 13, 2014 1:14 am

Kelso. It's probably the bit and the dark brown head, but yeah. Boy are we showing our age. I think he looks calm and well behaved, no surprise.

amfuller · Sun Apr 13, 2014 7:22 pm

Team Zenyatta ‏@TeamZenyatta 13m
Progress report! #foalwatch2014 @ Lane's End Farm http://instagram.com/p/mv3QPIoqEA/

amfuller · Sun Apr 13, 2014 10:43 pm

http://www.zenyatta.com/news/foal-watch-2014

islandgirl45 · Sun Apr 13, 2014 11:00 pm

Man, Life Is Sweet is huge herself. Wonder if she'll foal before Zen.

amfuller · Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:42 am

islandgirl45 wrote:Man, Life Is Sweet is huge herself. Wonder if she'll foal before Zen.

Life is Sweet foaled 19 days after Zenyatta last year so she's not even due until the end of April. She probably could go anytime now as well though.

serenassong · Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:39 am

Not sure if it's just the way that she is standing in that Tweeted photo- but to me, looks like the foal has to come back a bit more. Are the comments getting crazier than normal? I know sometimes that they can be a bit bizarre- so I chose not to read them- and I would think as the birth gets closer, more so.

swale1984 · Mon Apr 14, 2014 12:01 pm

Comments on facebook are the typical 'Poor thing, she deserves time off to just be a horse" stuff. I laid into one person who called the Mosses "money hungry" by pointing out that the care of Zenyatta and her foals, not to mention training fees, etc., actually costs them more money than they may make back if the foals hit the track. I wish some people would just learn a little bit about the industry first before posting!

aethervox · Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:22 pm

Since she had her last foal on her birthday, maybe she'll have this foal during the lunar eclipse (time info from earthsky.org):

Partial umbral eclipse begins: 1:58 a.m. EDT on April 15
Total eclipse begins: 3:07 a.m. EDT
Greatest eclipse: 3:46 a.m. EDT
Total eclipse ends: 4:25 a.m. EDT
Partial eclipse ends: 5:33 a.m. EDT

serenassong · Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:42 pm

aethervox wrote:Since she had her last foal on her birthday, maybe she'll have this foal during the lunar eclipse (time info from earthsky.org):

Partial umbral eclipse begins: 1:58 a.m. EDT on April 15
Total eclipse begins: 3:07 a.m. EDT
Greatest eclipse: 3:46 a.m. EDT
Total eclipse ends: 4:25 a.m. EDT
Partial eclipse ends: 5:33 a.m. EDT

I'd go with that

Diver52 · Mon Apr 14, 2014 4:34 pm

An Eclipse for our times. . .but I don't even want to think what kind of name they'd come up with if the foal was born during an eclipse!

sweettalk · Mon Apr 14, 2014 4:59 pm

Diver52 wrote:An Eclipse for our times. . .but I don't even want to think what kind of name they'd come up with if the foal was born during an eclipse!

i would support Zenclipse.

shortlead · Mon Apr 14, 2014 11:59 pm

Zclipse would be fine with me and would be a nice colt OR filly name.

shortlead · Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:27 am

Hmmmm, no Zclipse?

amfuller · Tue Apr 15, 2014 2:16 pm

Look at those dapples! Z has quite the coat. #foalwatch2014 @ Lane's End Farm http://instagram.com/p/m0Tc0kIqJg/

TapitsGal · Wed Apr 16, 2014 10:01 am

13Z has been named....Ziconic

Psychotic Parakeet · Wed Apr 16, 2014 10:02 am

I really like his name!

mariasmon · Wed Apr 16, 2014 10:04 am

TapitsGal wrote:13Z has been named....Ziconic

I actually snorted.

Diver52 · Wed Apr 16, 2014 12:54 pm

The "obvious" name was Tap Dancer, but that was probably taken--and I like Ziconic too. I think.

bare it all · Wed Apr 16, 2014 1:39 pm

It's better than Cozmic One, but that isn't saying much. Not sure I would want to have to name a horse of such popular stature because it would never seem "good enough" ... At least he isn't Zennie's Prince or Cozmic Too.

Diver52 · Wed Apr 16, 2014 4:41 pm

bare it all wrote:It's better than Cozmic One, but that isn't saying much. Not sure I would want to have to name a horse of such popular stature because it would never seem "good enough" ... At least he isn't Zennie's Prince or Cozmic Too.

I think we probably had a narrow escape of "Cozmic Too."