Famous Mares and How They Are Today (Zenyatta, Enable, Rags To Riches, Winx e Rachel Alexandra)
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Five extraordinary mares and their offspring and how they are today.
Zenyatta and her children in addition to Rags To Riches, Enable, Winx and Rachel Alexandra
All amazing but Zenyatta's finishes give me chills. Every time she ran from the back and just flew into high gear overtake mode.
The way she passed the world's best dirt horses in the 2009 Classic, as if they were standing still . . . something that won't be seen again.
Her last race was fixed. The owners made her jockey hold her back longer than usual, so she couldn't make up the time. Watch them all in a row and you will see this.
Zenyattawas definitely my favorite glad her broodmare career is over safely
In regards to Rachel, after her daughter Rachesl Valentina was foaled, she was permanently retired from breeding due to the complications in the foaling. Wish more breeders would do right by the horse
If she’d not had such a good race record, she’d have ended up at a slaughterhouse.
I agree. Rachel had complications delivering Jess's Dream, too, but Rachel's Valentina nearly killer her. Nothing in the world should be worth risking the life of a horse that has done nothing but treat the owners and fans well...imo, poor Zenyatta has pretty rotten luck with her foals, too, and it might be better for her mental health to permanently retire her as well. Poor girl doesn't deserve to keep losing foals. It's hard for women when they lose their pregnancies/children. It can't be any easier for mares.
@@konaaukai5541 Actually and I don't mean this cruely you are projecting human emotion onto a horse. I'm also not saying it isn't sad when a foal is lost, to humans at least. In the wild a mare will reject and or leave a sick foal or one that can not keep up with the herd. The first few days what you are seeing is instinct to keep a foal alive so the species survives, not human motherly love. After a few days the mare doesn't even care and goes on about her life.
@@nightmyst855 in a wild, yes. But domestic horses tend to be different from their wild counterparts.
They are not only vocal, but more social and human-understanding.
Mares can definitely feel anxiety and sadness over loosing a baby. Some even go into emotional distress.
I dealt with this myself. Seen a mare that was trotting around looking for her foal for a week. She tried to make him stand up right after birth, even tho he was barely alive. She didn't let anyone into the stall, she had to be dragged out for the baby to be delivered to the vet. Thankfully, baby survived, but still.
Stop saying that animals can't feel emotions. They experience them in a different way, but they still do. Humans and horses are both mammals with insane emotional spectrum.
@@nightmyst855 I have to disagree with you I had a mare that lost two foals in consequential years & the last foal she had she pampered it so bad she's almost absolutely spoiled rotten has no manners at all with other horses Etc
Winx was phenomenal! Can't wait to see Zenyatta's Candy Ride filly run!
Steve Haskins described Rags to Riches race in the Belmont like this in a great column:
Rags to Riches, who had stumbled badly at the start and then raced wide the entire way, took the outside route, while Curlin, who had saved ground, split horses inside her with a quick burst of speed. Now, as they honed in on each other, it was time to see which one had the strongest will. It was a classic male vs. female confrontation, something you don’t see in most other sports.
Rags to Riches’ powerful four-wide move had enabled her to outrun Curlin and establish a slight advantage turning for home. Curlin fought back, as both horses switched to their right lead on cue. Velazquez threw a wide cross on the reins to gather the filly, while Robby Albarado went to a right-handed whip, causing Curlin to duck in, away from the filly. When Albarado switched to a series of left-handed whips, Curlin came back out and bumped Rags to Riches. But the filly, who has been manhandling humans since she was a baby, was not about to be intimidated by the powerful chestnut. Albarado continued to hit Curlin left-handed, and again he came out and bumped Rags to Riches, who again shrugged it off.
Velazquez resorted to only a single left-handed whip, then switched and gave her one right-handed whip. Her blood was up, and Velazquez realized she needed little encouragement. Although Curlin kept digging in and battling back, Rags to Riches refused to relinquish her head advantage. As she eased in slightly and Curlin again came out into her, the two were leaning all over each other as the wire approached.
Most horses, especially fillies, would have been intimidated by the contact from a bruiser like Curlin, but Rags to Riches seemed to relish this test of superiority. Velazquez now was just waving the whip and leaving it all up to her. With sheer grit, determination, and tenacity, Rags to Riches kept her head advantage to the finish following a sizzling final quarter-mile in :23.83.
Well you at least know the lingo to get a crowded worked up even if it is utter rubbish. LOL
@@nightmyst855: What is utter rubbish?
I won a straight $2.00 superfecta picked all 4 horses in correct order wish I had bet more the 2 bucks I'll never forget that I'm not no way a professional handicapper just lucky.
@@nightmyst855 you best watch the replay I thought it was very good minute account of the race beautifully done
@@nightmyst855I think you're rubbish! Lol 😂
As an Australian and a big Winx fan, I must say Zenyatta really impressed me and she was by the same sire as Winx.
I only really follow US racing so it wasn't until recently that I learned Winx actually has the same sire as Zenyatta, Street Cry. Crazy that he produced two legends.
And it's somewhat lucky that it happened, at all. Street Cry came to Australia for a few seasons when he first went to stud, but his offspring didn't shoot the lights out, and so he was dropped from Australian service. But his early crop runners showed that they got better with age, and after an absence of a few years, Street Cry was given a second chance out here, but I do know that it was a 50/50 call. Thankfully for the racing world, they did go ahead and bring him out for a second time, and it was in that second life here that Winx was conceived.
Such great memories… Now Mandy Pope has a band of mares like no other. I know science says foals get 60% from the mare. But I think it is more. Such greatness
Mandy Pope and Summer Wind farm are the mega mare collectors
A mare can only pass on 50% to a foals genetics. The stallion passes 50% as well. To say a mare passes 60% is just genetically not possible. All mammals are an exact 50/50 percent of parents genetic material.
Mandy Pope has the band of mares like no other? You must be new to the breeding . Have you heard of Juddmont.
@@paullee64 yep shadwell, godolphin, coolmore and moncreux aswell
I'm always happy to see a mare go to Mandy Pope at auction.
Lots of famous “ladies”out there and their babies!
I remember watching Ruffian run
and watching that match race. I was 14 and in tears after seeing her breakdown
I do think she would have won!
I think it would have been close
Many consider the match race as a win for Ruffian as she was ahead of Foolish Pleasure when she broke down. To my knowledge, Foolish Pleasure's owners, even gave her owner's the win. Such a shame they didn't have the technology and gear we have today as I believe, she could of been saved had she been in a pool.
@@akibawolfproductions Maybe-Barbaro had all the modern advances but laminitis killed him
@@downhomesunset Secretariat had to be put down because of laminitis aswell, but I am not sure if he sired any foals I do know that he had a great grandson saved from slaughter.
@@Mistfall254
General Assembly was a successful son of Secretariat and was red like his sire.
Risen Star was another one, and won 2 legs of the Triple crown, that included the Preakness and the Belmont, and AP INDY was Secretariat's grandson, and son of Seattle Slew.
AP INDY, may be among the greatest sire, and passed away about 2 years ago,
I believe in 2020, 31-32years, perhaps among the greatest sires ever...RIP AP INDY!
I saw that race too...horrific slo mo film I wept the following morning when I read she was gone. Yes she might have been saved had she come out of anesthesia in a pool. Barbaro was equally sad. Horses who break through the barrier are no longer just shoved back into the gate. Something good came from his death!
Zenyatta 19 for 19 incredible! And she’s the most precious horse the world has ever seen!
Winx 33 in a row, the world may never see that again! Truly amazing!
What a legacy Street Cry has left the world, 2 of the best girls ever to set foot on a track!
Until Mike the stiff Smith blew her last start in the BC classic.it worked for me I had a $500 exacta box with blame.ended up getting the better end of it this way.Don't get me wrong I was a huge Zenyatta fan wished Rachel would not have fucked her.wanted to see them against each other.btw I also admit my losses I did have a$200 straight exacta Zenyatta over blame,but still made out pretty good.
Winx I dont believe ever left her country to race,after awhile she was beating the same horses over and over again,I dont believe she went to the Arc,royal ascot or the breeders cup...great record but to me she wasnt beating much after awhile
@@joehawk9839 Rachel in her prime?would have run with her,,rachel was very hard to catch by anybody on her A game,u sound more like a sour losing bettor more than a racing fan tbh dude
@@lagosfury5142 have you ever played sports, well it’s pretty hard to be at your best every time out and yet somehow Winx found a way to win 33 in a row, she didn’t always get good starts, other horses having a great day, get stuck in some traffic, things didn’t always go her way but she found a way to win, that’s pretty amazing!
@@joehawk9839 instead of blaming Mike how about giving Blame some credit, he had the best day of his career that day and squeaked out a win
Wow! Zenyatta is my horse, but Winx is astounding!
" WINX " NOBODY BETTER......MALE OR FEMALE.......ICON LEGEND......WOW....WOW.......!!!
All these mares are incredible ! Queen Z is my fav
Winx the undefeated still makes my heart sing every time I see her races. A legend truely 💖 I hope she’s enjoying retirement 😊
Winx wasnt undefeated, she was even unplaced and lost multiple races in her career
@ A J C Winx won 4 of her first ten races, while she was still maturing. But from late 3yo onwards, she then won 33 in a row. Final stats were 37 wins from 43 starts.
Amazing that with these mares and the bloodlines they were crossed with, that nothing exceptional became of any of their offspring.
Well, to be fair Winx has only recently started breeding. She lost her first foal, but hopefully she has time. We'll see.
I know what you mean KRG, but it's not really that amazing. Mares at best can only have one foal a year, so realistically they only get maybe 4-5 chances to produce a top runner. Stallion have hundreds of offspring in their lifetimes, and even the top stallions struggle to do better than one in ten being stakes class. Mares just don't get the statistical opportunity to show what they can pass on.
Few top race mares make good broodmares. You have the occasional exception like Personal Ensign, but most of the tomboys bomb out - as Mandy Pope has discovered.
Sometimes, if you follow pedigrees, it's the 2nd generation that inherits the talents.
Winx and zenyatta have the same dad they are the best ❤
But, Zenyatta has my heart. She TALKED to us by swinging her head with that beautiful mane and her feet. HER DANCING FEET. She LOVED to run past all the rest of the crowd, switch gears and floor it.
I love that horse and followed her life for years, until I made myself turn away after the death of Princess Z. I couldn’t take it.
So, now I’m trying to catch up.
Those days were magical days.
Mike Smith was THE MAN to me! Hahaha!
Long Live Zenyatta, Queen Z. Thank you for the joy♥️ 🐎
Winx what amazing mare
How cool! Enable's first foal was born on my birthday.
One of the best race horses in the world hope you are having fun we 😍 WE LOVE YOU
ALL OF THESE HORSES....ARE ON MY WALL OF FAME PLAQUES.......LEGENDS IN RACING FOREVER.....!!!
Thank you for the video, it brought back memories and was the perfect way to start a chilly gray Sunday morning in San Francisco with a huge mug of coffee. #TEAMRACHEL
i keep up with enable news cause shes my favorite!
Thanks for the memories
WINX UPDATE: Gave birth to a filly foal to stallion pierro on 8th october 2022.. Both well and healthy.
That filly is going to go for a fortune
Zenyatta is doing the Spanish walk! Lol
there was a mare called ''black caviar'' who won 25 out of 25 a world record that stands today if you exclude the mighty hungarian mare kincsem 54 wins undefeated.
Deserve one vídeo only for Black Caviar!
Zenyatta isn’t meant to produce a horse like herself. I don’t know why they keep trying. Let her live out her life in peace.
Amazing video off great mare s , i love it .❤
I hate how these videos make out racing to be something nice. A race horse starts racing as early as a two year old. Horses aren't supposed to be ridden until they are at least 3 and a half years old. Not only that but race horses are FORCED to run at unnatural speeds. And don't tell me horses love running. While they're happy to prance around and have zoomies, they do not appreciate being whipped for a few hundred meters or a few kilometers. Young race horses sometimes have fatal injuries which result in owners putting them down because they're worthless.
Now, when a mare retires, she spends maybe a week or two a year not being pregnant. As you've seen in the Rags to Riches part, she was sold to Ireland in 2009 and had 12 foals since then. That's 1 foal a year. A mare is in foal for about 340 days, sometimes more, sometimes less, but the difference isn't usually more than 5 days give or take. When a race mare gives birth, she is almost instantly taken away to a stud farm where she gets into foal heat. Foal heat is what happens to a mare about a week after giving birth when she is around stallions. They instantly breed her and get her back to her foal that was without her for some time. This is stressful and cruel both towards the mare and the foal. And a lot of race horses in the world end up in meat factories. The ones with injuries get thrown away or killed. To the race industry, horses aren't animals but machines that work for them in unnatural conditions.
So, a race mare spends a week or two A YEAR not being pregnant. After giving birth, she is taken away from her foal so she gets into foal heat, and then she is taken back to her foal. This cycle repeats on and on. Imagine being forced to be pregnant every year for over a decade. I understand horses are animals and some may say this is fine because horses in the wild would do the same. When you look at it, humans are also capable of the same thing. But pregnancy puts irreversible, massive strains on our bodies. Same thing happens to horses.
These horses are not bred so the horse population rises. These horses are bred so they can become money machines. And most horses that end up on the track end up with terrible bone and tendon issues in the future. That's unavoidable for any horse that spends years on tracks.
I'm sorry. Actually, I'm not. Horse racing is abuse. It's a terrible industry that uses pain (whipping) to force an animal to do something that animal is not supposed to do in order to get cash. The racing industry is trading horse lives for money.
I know Rags had a 5lb advantage, but that filly showed a ton of guts outdueling the Great CURLIN!!
Exactly. Plus she had the 7th spot out of the starting gate, from which she stumbled and she ran the entire race far wide while Curlin had a dream trip near the rail. Nothing against, Curlin, but Rags is my favorite racing mare of them all.
@@ladywalker68 AND... Curlin's greatness has shown up in his progeny as he spits out "Black Type's" left and right year after year. Anyway, it was a monumental effort beating Curlin @ a mile and a half!!!
This might be my favorite vid!!!
Secretariat produced several amazing horses. Everyone kept expecting him to reproduce himself. But he was one of a kind.
One other filly in Ozz was a horse that won the Melbourne cup three in a row. Her name was Makaby Deva. So here in Ozz she is a legend as the Melbourne cup is the race that stops a national.
The fact that in her first breeders cup when the fans saw her make her move the cheers got so loud the race caller couldnt even be heard
Sometimes we as humans try to create greatness which we cant....Breeding these great fillies to great stallions RARELY WORKS...SAD..
I think Zenyatta is phenomenal
GOOD to see anyone CARES.......
💓💓💓💓
don't know if you experts have heard of a horse called black caviar.
Deserves a vídeo.....
@@RACINGAROUNDTHEWORLD Yes, she's my personal favourite
Should make this list ahead of Winx for sure
Girl power all the way!!
surprised they didn't have Black Caviar on here?? she was awesome!!
Agreed
Many notches higher than Winx
Where is Black caviar
Let’s have a look at the dams of these wonderful mares . They are the dams that bred the winners.
Winx. Simply the best we have ever seen. An absolute freak.
WINX‼️ Amazing.
Fabulous horses -- but let's give the jockys due credit, too! 🐎🐎🐎💖
🏇🏻🏇🏻🏇🏻
Black Caviar the best I'll ever see.
I was a fan of hers here in America. She was a fantastic.
Another never produced a successful progeny. When did a great female produce a good racer. Rachel did and almost died in labor. Unfair for girls
Also the 2 toughest big races are the Belmont and Melbourne
Should be on the list before Winx
Australian sprint racing is high quality
Australian middle distance racing is woeful
Winx beat the same 7 horses 33 times. I backed Winx twice, the last 2 times she got beat so I probably dropped off her then. She was based in Sydney too, the world capital of fake hysteria.
Zenyatta’s canter. 😍
Zenyatta: She was AWESOME. Lucky enough to be living in DelMar at the time she was running and she was fun to watch (with that dance) in the paddock but I’ve never watched a horse, male or female that could spot the greatest horses 15-20 lengths early… and then she came running. The 2009 Breeders Cup produced the greatest win but also the greatest race call by Trevor Denman! Both legends in the sport, together at the wire… “one we will never forgot…”!
Loved Zenyatta. Mike Smyth's fault she lost.
EXCELLENT ZABARDAST
Could Winx and Zenyatta even have raced eachother, or were they too far apart in age? It would have been a good race to see, but then maybe not fair as Winx raced best on grass and it looked like Zenyatta raced best on dirt.
Much as I love Zenyatta…Winx is the greatest of all time. Let’s hope she produces one as good as herself….🐎
Times speak truth winx on grass slower zenyatta on dirt
I’m not sure you can be called the greatest of all time by beating horses rated less than 120 for virtually your whole career.
Winx was a champion. So are the Harlem Globetrotters who get to beat the Washington general's every week. Black Caviar the best Australian racehorse.
songbird podria estar en la lista. Sera para la próxima edición.
Her ears are unmistakable
Actually the work you do is well done. Move on...👍👍👍
NICE
I still think that Zenyatta's last race was fixed. If you watch all her races one after the other, you will see that in the last one she was held back longer than the other ones she always won. If they had allowed her jockey to let her go sooner she would have had enough time to make up the distance and win her last one too. Big Big money on that last race.
Mike Smith would never fix a race 😡
Z got beat by the better horse that day, get over it.
What about Personal Ensign or Winning Colors.
Two mares that deserves a vídeo too!
Awesome sauce!
Personally I liked Zarkava a lot. Admittedly her progeny hasn't show a lot so far, but as a racehorse she was second to none. Unbeaten in all her 7 starts, she finished her superb career with a brilliant win in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
an not a Feminist nor given to tears BUT watching this Tatkable celebration of that indefinable thing Horsemen call ," heart " & having watched these Ladies Endevours in AWE thank you for showing thus contingent of inspiration as they .found such new moments of achievement & Tremembering our own retinue of Home breds who rewarded us with offering us smaller but as important moments of gratitude as they performed with determination , even when .anxiously asking for confidence from our entertained bodies or hands at foaming Those who have not had such privilege with another species cannit know how intense these moments are .Our good fortune to be part of this with BOTH our Horses (& Ponies ) a.& our Dogs has meant a continual of suspense & at times sorrow but always , always " inexplicable hope "
If you cannot even watch female horses compete without referencing your attitude toward women, then you are not "not a feminist"; you are a misogynist.
Fifty carets? She is a legend! Most if not all of her foals were amazing
black caviar??
Is another mare that deserves a vídeo!
Zennyatta will always be the Queen but HTF did Rachel Alexandra make this list and Black Caviar not???
Black Caviar deserves to be on this list....just like Treve, Winning Colours, Ouija Board, Ruffian, Beholder etc....
Ah, Beholder.
Beholder was also an extraordinary mare and deserves a video just for her
ruclips.net/video/U-aQnoTMQkw/видео.html
Interesting that Zenyatta and Winx (half sisters and don't get me started on which parent they share) both had complications foaling (it took Winx three matings to be in foal with I Am Invincible before the pregnancy ended in a stillborn).
They're not half siblings. To be considered half siblings they have to be out of the same dam.
Don’t think Z has a problem foaling: delivered several goals the two males were not successful on the track and now are in training as sport horses one of the fillies was euthanized after a paddock accident the other one has also died due to a medical condition Based on a banner scrolling at the start pot this blog Another filly, Zilka is in training with John Sheriffs ( I wish that Z would end up at Old Friends) where she would certainly attract many fans, and thereby help support other TB retirees while receiving excellent care) i f the Mosses ever decide to stop breeding her
@@meganproffitt424 so both are by Street Cry?
@@lespangen Oh cool, we have a retired racehorse farm here too, called Living Legends
@@lespangen Yes.
what, no Songbird? Much as I despise racing, at least here is a tribute to the long suffering mares too....
Songbird Will be in the next video
They aren't suffering.
As any of us who own retired racehorses know. Zenyatta's "dancing" is anxiety. She and Mike Smith are my favorite of all time. She too should be given a breeding break. After all she is 18 yrs old. Wouldn't it be nice to reunite her with her non-racing babies!!??
Would rather she go to Old Friends and thereby be available for fan visits and be safe comfy and loved and by attracting fans help support that wonderful OTTB retirement farm ( plus she loves people/ attention reportedly) There is a band of retired mares so she’d have company 😬
She probably doesn't even remember her foals lmfao
Enable retired to stud?!?! Huh? She is a female horse not a male!
at the begining for zenyattas clip 11:23 i think she does that becasue she might have laminitis, this is where there horse hurts in all four feet but mostly the front ones and so they start doing thes sorts of things and throughout the years it gets worst if not treated, i am not a vet so i might be very wrong but this is just what i think after seeing the 'dance' she did.
I think not. I think she did it because she was nervous. It was actually her trademark in racing and we'll never know why she did it.
1) Zenyatta was famous for her Spanish walk, a dressage move which she did naturally. She did it before many of her races, perhaps all of them, in the walking ring and the post-parade. I don't know if it was nervousness, or a way of showing off for the crowd, or if she did the move around the barn, as well. I do know it was perfectly normal pre-race behavior for her and was oft commented upon; the Wikipedia entry on her mentions her "dance moves." In another video featuring Zenyatta, someone made the comment that her soundness would be questionable if she walked normally (because it was not normal for her). 2) A horse with laminitis is NOT going to entered in a race, and would certainly not be winning regularly over several years, as Zenyatta did. Nor would she have been able to carry her pregnancies without the extra weight exacerbating laminitis.
There is a 3-minute video on RUclips titled "ZENYATTA'S DANCE!!!.dv" showing her exhibiting this behavior in various post parades.
@@marysueeasteregg ok thx
@@RACINGAROUNDTHEWORLD kk thx for telling me :)
Many Jockeys cross themselves to give thanks for a race without injury...maybe that was her way of using a ritual to ask for protection from injury...her good luck charm.
Zenyatta, Rachel and Ruffian are 3 of the fastest females ever (Eventhouh Zen was a stalker she sill has the 2nd fastest Ladies Classic ever and 14th fastest BCC without even trying limping along, ears up head bopping up and down like she’s on a stroll. Zenyatta is the fastest closer in US racing history like Secretariat. She has all the big 3 Nearco, Native Dancer and Pricnequillo. I hope she has legacy progeny. Her sire, Street Cry, strikes lightning 2x. 2 of the greatest females (with Australian Winx) who ever raced!!
Mate her to American Pharoah or California Chrome. Her death without a successful foal would be a catastrophe. Why are all these incredible female racers: Zen, Genuine Risk, Lady's Secret, Rags, beholder, songbird nothing,, Sad. Even the Greatest female Australian horses ever Makybe Diva and now Winx seems to be suffering the same fate. They need to revisit the interbreeding of native dancer, Losing ruffian, barbaro and eight belle's is the wake up call
Racing is just hard on their bodies
@@balayagesalon I agree racing isn’t the same. Horses used to race 40-80 races before retiring now they are lucky to race 20. And added to that is the native dancer curse. Ruffian prob shouldn’t have raced as a 3 year old after getting a fracture at 2. Both her sire reviewer and dam shenanigans died from leg breaks. They need to more accommodating to take special care into lines like native dancer with a history of leg breaks. It is ridiculous the whole idea of the polyurethane tracks was to ensure more safety to the horses and then it was just trashed and Santa Anita and all the poly tracks were changed back to dirt after the bs of curlin and Rachel. Then Santa Anita and all the tracks switched and on track deaths dramatically increased and now horses are being ran a lot of the times on drugs. I love horses and racing but the need to seriously relook at interbreeding and drugging in the industry. The stigma being attached to horse racing is approaching the stigmA of captive performing killer whales and the future just needs the obsessed libs start attacking horse racing like they did sea world and we could watch the end of fastest 2 minutes in racing.
California Chrome was sold to Japan a few years ago and tbh hasn’t shown much yet at stud
@@valerieteti1755 i hate to hear that not just for the word JAPAN. Where Exceller and Ferdinand were both murdered!! years ago!! after they made millions!!! #NEVERAGAIN
@@charfras4767 That was a long time ago and a lot has changed since then. Stallions sold to Japan now have clauses in their contracts to be returned to the US when their stud careers are over. Charismatic War Emblem and Silver Charm returned to the US at Old Friends to live out their days peacefully in fact Charm is still with us at 28!
People were outraged over the fates of Exceller and Ferdinand and are much more aware now especially with social media. It won’t happen again.
Good Luck jockeys sport Mike Smith and horse Zenyatta, USA
You need a proof reader (a real horse person) for the captions....they need some help...
Zenyatta has had such bad luck in breeding. Poor gal.
Black Cavier, Makybe diva?
Two fantastic mares! Deserve a vídeo too!
Winx' rider's the only one who does not beat the living sh*t out of his mount. Nearly all the others do . Hate that.
And what happens if the foals of famous mothers won't run? Do they end up at the kill buyers? Horrible thought.
I think the whip will soon be banned from racing
@@RACINGAROUNDTHEWORLD hope so. Some run their heart out, anyway, Others get nervous and shy and bolt - under high speed, lots of accidents happen just due to "a wrong step" provoked by movement of rider or pain or shock.
I thought there was already a ban of more than 3x use of the whip`?
@@MollyGrue1 Depends on the racetrack and country. There are places that prohibit and others with limits. but most don't have legislation yet
@@RACINGAROUNDTHEWORLD what I cannot understand: Sometimes they keep beating and whipping a horse when the race is already run, horse is somewhere in the middle or end of the field, nothing remains to be won. Eventers sometimes get a slight slap on the rump and an encouraging word - and they, hell, need courage. This frenetic whipping just shows an absolutely DUMB rider... as an owner or trainer I would kick them out of their jobs, sorry to say.
@@MollyGrue1 The jockeys aren't actually hitting the horse as THAT IS illegal. ALL racetracks have SPCA on standby and trust me when I say, there'd be severe consequences to ANYONE caught breaking that golden rule. It only appears that they're hitting the horse when in reality, they're hitting their boot. And if you were able too, you'd hear the whip making a sharp cracking sound, this is what encourages the horses to get a move on.
Trust me, if you were to strike one of those horses, as sweated up as they are, it'd create an electric jolt. You'd literally down your horse within seconds. And there's been massive studies that have shown what these 'faux electric jolts' can do. It can cause muscles to burn, cook flesh, etc. At that point, a racehorse's career is literally over with.
As for surplus foals or foals who don't run well, there's loads of options that breeding farms, owners, co-owners and share holders look into after a racing career is over. Many OTTBs become successful eventers, cross country racers, dressage horses, therapy horses and regular run of the mill, trail mounts.
Keenland even plays host to specialized sales for such a thing ^^ But it's kept pretty hush hush because kill buyers are, sadly, a thing.
Where does Winning Colors rank? 😁✌🏼
4:18 What is wrong with that jockey with his head flopping around?? Did his neck muscles use up all of it's energy and strength during the race or what? LOL
June 9 2023, Z foals a filly by War Front, a spitting image of Z with same face marking. Z is now officially retired from foaling. 💞🤠
One thing that for some reason really seems to throw Rachel Alexandras most vocal fans for a loop is the perceived difficulty of her Preakness race. For casual racing fans the Preakness is likely much more recognizable than the Breeders Cup Classic but that is only because of it's placement in the Triple Crown races not because is is harder. They saw when Zenyatta became the first female to win the classic and since it had only been around since 1982 where as it had been around 100 years since a female won the Preakness, so to them that I guess seemed more impressive but anyone who knows knows there is no comparison in difficulty. The Preakness is absolutely nowhere near as difficult. As evident by the fact that only the top best couple horses from the Preakness are able to enter in the Classic, which is horse racing's championship race. They don't have to take my word for it just compare the career results of the 2 fields (Rachel's other 2 male races were even weaker fields). The Breeders Cup Classic is made up of the very best horses from around the world each year.
I think what must confuse those fans about the importance of the Breecers Cup is the fact that Rachel's trainer and owners spent all 3 years of her career ducking the competition. They tried different excuses but the truth about why they didn't come was pretty evident and her name was Zenyatta. They tried to say it was not wanting to run Rachel on that surface , but considering she had not only already ran on a synthetic track but won. So that excuse makes no sense. Of course this was further disproven when the 2010 event was not only held on dirt but at Rachels most raced track. Of course that came on the heels of them backing down from the long awaited showdown that had a purse of 5 million if both horses showed up, only one did.
When it comes to comparing the 2 the fact that anyone at any point really thought they were equals let alone thought Rachel was better is silly. Probably my favorite and most telling statistic is the fact that Zenyatta had as many Grade 1 wins as Rachel had wins total (13). Sadly after getting beaten by a horse Zenyatta not just shared a stable with but would absolutely brutalize on the track when training the "Showdown" was no more and thus were left with delusional fans forever using the "What if?" mindset. By the way Zenyatta furtheed the humiliation of Rachel's loudest fans a race later when she too met up with Zardana on the track. Despite being forced to carry an insane 129 lbs (a full 11 pounds more than Zardana and a good 5 pounds more than Rachel ever carried in her career) Zenyatta flew by her like she dropped an anchor. Watching that race again I can still blur my vision and picture Rachel running her heart out, dueling with Zardana down the stretch with everything she had as a giant blur flashed across the screen on her way to running down the leader, carryign 9 lbs less by the way)
It would be awesome if they could have done a match race with all of these amazing mares, if only Ruffian was still around 🖤
I hate match races. Because of how much money and hype they generate, even if one of the horses is not in top form, they still get run. In any other race, even with a small field, if the trainer or owner feels there is a problem the horse is scratched.
@@jeangladstone720 I don't like them either, especially after the one with Ruffian and Foolish Pleasure.
Will the horse who lost to rags to riches be transing to mare?
www.bloodhorse.com/stallion-register/stallions/127542/curlin
Curlin has become one of the best North American stallions around. He is the leading lifetime sire by average earnings index, and ranked by TRC Global Rankings as the leading dirt sire in the world.
I think you meant retire to broodmare for Enable. Females can't... you know.... breed another mare... that's a stallions job. Putting out to stud means you are putting your stallion up for breeding a mare.
11..O3...GOOD HORSES
Why does this condescending announcer make a point to say she defeated Mine That Bird?!?! She defeated all the other horses too. Biased much?
Because Mine That Bird was the Derby winner
I can understand breeding a mare, but year, after year, after year is ridiculous.
It's what they do in the wild. Many mares will breed, take a break the next year, then breed yearly. It's what is best mentally and physically for the mare.
csu-cvmbs.colostate.edu/Documents/learnmares3-breed-foalheat-2009.pdf
Per Dr. Patrick M McCue (PhD) from Colorado State, breeding mares in foal heat is encouraged.
None of them produced…
those usa jockeys give their horses a good thrashing, is there no limit to how many times they can hit a horse?
I can’t say how good Winx was because she never raced in America!?!
@@anthonyj7989 that’s not entirely true, I’ve seen Aus horses win Breeders cup races in the past!
Well she's the best horse in Australian history, and lesser Australian horses have won in America, so why wouldn't she? Have you heard of Shannon? An Australian miler who was taken to America as a six year old, with no dirt experience, yet won the Hollywood Gold Cup and equalled two world records. Shannon in Australia wouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as Winx, so common sense ought to tell you she must have been some horse.
@@daleviker5884 I’m pretty sure Australia horses are inferior to American horses so I don’t know anything about common sense my dude!
How in heavens name could Zenatta be ranked above Winks,not in earnings not in wins not against males not in graded stakes not in anything.I am not an Aussie nor am i an American.
It is not a rank, are 05 extraordinary mares!
Because Australian middle distance racing is low quality stuff.
Don’t get me wrong she was a great horse and keeping that streak going so long was amazing but she was never in a serious race.
Zenyatta may have run in lots of distaff races but at least she did run in two serious G1 contests
Winx ran in zero
So Rags to Riches went on to basically be bred continuously. She has foaled every year, being bred back immediately. She’s 18 this year. How long will this continue? The industry has no interest in what is best/healthiest for the horse. Only keeping the horse healthy enough to earn money. Sad.
After the age of 20, the mare must be well cared for and cared for in order to generate healthy offspring.
csu-cvmbs.colostate.edu/Documents/learnmares3-breed-foalheat-2009.pdf
Goldikova is the best ever ,won 3 consecutive breeders mile cup,won in 3 continent too
No doubt! Will be in the next video!
@@RACINGAROUNDTHEWORLD I hope so ,cos she had beaten the cold and fillies in EU and USA
Wish i didnt have to read the vdieo and you had some talking - I always lcick your videos then click off because i listen at work
Rags to riches is definitely a colt producer cause she has only had colts
Its the stallion that determines the gender of the foal
@@wren1024 Have you got a source for this? Sounds interesting.
@@wren1024 Never heard of this before, do you have a source I could look into? Besides normal bodily spermicides and mucous/hygienic and self-cleansing functions of the cervix and vaginal secretions, I've never heard of this before.
Yes, but none of them had to face the years top colt in a mile and a quarter, one-turn, match race. Rachel Alexandra couldn’t even win against fillies at a mile and a quarter. Rags to Riches wins a mile and a half race and was never the same again.
What does that have to do with anything?
Amat menyeronokan..
incredible careers these "ladies" had.... one wish they had a deserving retirement but alas they become reproduction machines - a bit sad actually.
This is terribly sad to see these mares overbred. Terrible industry, terrible owners.
csu-cvmbs.colostate.edu/Documents/learnmares3-breed-foalheat-2009.pdf
Only contest winners get a chance to visit her (Rachel Alexandra)? and only two times per year ? Since she's not breeding why not allow more visitors...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know!
Zenyatta did'nt earned THAT 💔
Why isn't black caviar on this list of great race mares?
In the next for sure!