AGENT ZENYATTA....

Throughout the whole semester, we have been talking about the struggles and challenges that women have gone thru in the past. In our second reading summaries, one of the reading that was included in that, was the story about the competitive WOMAN walkers who were doing so good that they were out performing most men. Little that we know, for the past three years, another WOMAN in sports is out making news.

Zenyatta, a 4 year old mare, has made huge splashes in the horse racing world in the past 4 years. Many have doubted what Zenyatta could really do and many people were not giving her all of the credit that she deserves. The reason for this, was because Zenyatta is a female horse and all of the race that she ran was against all the other female horses. All of that changed when Zenyatta entered in a Grade I race, which all of the other horses in that race were male horses. Zenyatta prevailed and won very easily. During Zenyatt's career, she had won both the Breeders Cup Ladies Classic (2008) and the Breeders Cup Classic(2009) ( a race that is only held once a year, where horses all over the world travel and compete). Last month, Zenyatta ran again in the Breeders Cup Classic (2010) to defend her crown as a champion Older horse. With a win in this race, Zenyatta would go down in history as the only horse ever to ever win a Breeders Cup Ladies Classic and two Breeders Cup Classic race. Also, with a win in this race, Zenyatta would also be the only horse ever to win 20 consecutive races. This feat was very unheard of and never been done by any horse, male or female. And Zenyatta was just about to do that......

Unfortunately, Zenyatta lost. Lost by a very narrow margin............ :(


Despite the lost, Zenyatta is still considered as the best race horse that this generation had ever seen. Although this champion did not come out as the eventual winner in this race, she left all of us a very important lesson. Women in this world, whether its in sports, work, or even horse racing, can be very competitive be successful on the same time. Lets give our women all the things that they deserve, and we should stop doubting their abilities.