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Article: Zenyatta's place in racing history is assured
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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BY the time dusk descended on Santa Anita and the 26th -- and
from a European point of view, most successful -- Breeders' Cup,
someone had placed a winner's garland of yellow and purple flowers
on the statue of Seabiscuit.
It was the same floral display which, an hour earlier, had
adorned Zenyatta, the 17 hands tall five-year-old mare who had come
from a seemingly impossible position to become the first female
Classic winner and take her record to a perfect 14 -- 14 wins from
14 starts.
The garland of a modern day racing heroine was now keeping warm,
for the fast approaching Californian night, the monument to the
horse that became a symbol of hope for so many American citizens
during the ...