Zenyatta stars in Breeders Cup Ladies Classic

Zenyatta added another victory to her unbeaten record yesterday, winning the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic in Santa Anita.

John Shirreff’s filly won the race by surging into the lead on the final turn, leaving the Godolphin duo of Music Note and Cocoa Beach to battle it out for 2nd and 3rd place.

The race helped Zenyatta’s jockey, Mike Smith, to his second win of the day.

“She’s just amazing,” Smith said. “As soon as we got away in good order, I knew it was good. I knew it was there any time I asked her. I’ve never seen a horse go past other horses like this filly can. She sets herself up to come to them, and she just blazes by them.”

After the race Zenyatta’s owner, Jerry Moss, indicated that his star filly may retire at the end of the year.

“We sort of saved it all for seeing that she gets back OK, then we’ll talk about it, I guess,” Jerry Moss said. “I don’t really, at this day, see any other … I mean, she’s just too good not to run again. But we have to talk about all that.

“Obviously, she deserves a rest, and then we go from there.”