Zenyatta - 2009 Vanity Handicap

A 129-pound impost wasn't enough to stop the undefeated champion Zenyatta, who earned a repeat win in the $287,000 Vanity Handicap (gr. I)at Hollywood Park June 27 for her 11th consecutive victory.

In her familiar come-from-behind style, the imposing 5-year-old mare rallied from fourth at the top of the stretch under jockey Mike Smith to draw off in the final sixteenth en route to a 2 1/2-length victory over the pacesetter Briecat on Hollywood's Cushion Track. She was the 3-10 favorite in the field of six older fillies and mares.

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[GBeret83]

Zenyatta carried a boulder while the rest of the Vanity field carried a brick in this race, and they still couldn't take her down. It was the first, but certainly not the last time that Zenyatta was ask to carry a whole lot more weight than her rivals.