{"id":2681,"date":"2009-11-04T00:43:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T05:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2009-11-04T00:43:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T05:43:38","slug":"gotta-watch-zenyatta-in-breeders-cup-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=2681","title":{"rendered":"Gotta watch Zenyatta in Breeders&#8217; Cup Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2009\/Zenatta_yes.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Race fans and horse lovers will have a rare opportunity on Saturday, November 7, to watch supermare <a href=\"http:\/\/\">Zenyatta<\/a>, as she attempts to become the first female to win the $5 million Breeders&#8217; Cup Classic. The Classic, the final event in the 14-race, $25.5 million <a href=\"http:\/\/\">Breeders&#8217; Cup Championships<\/a>, will be televised from Santa Anita Park on ESPN, beginning at 3:30 ET.<\/p>\n<p>Running against males for the first time in her career, five-year-old Zenyatta, who won the 2008 Breeders&#8217; Cup Ladies Classic, has been installed as the 5-2 morning line favorite in a 13-horse field that includes 10 G1 winners, including 2009 Kentucky Derby winner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=1130\">Mine That Bird <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/\">2009 Belmont Stakes <\/a>winner Summer Bird.<\/p>\n<p>Massive yet statuesque, Zenyatta is undefeated in 13 starts against females. She will break from the #4 post position under Mike Smith for John Shirreffs, who conditions the Street Cry daughter for Jerry and Ann Moss.<\/p>\n<p>The 2009 Breeders&#8217; Cup World Championships will receive nine hours of live coverage over two days on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2. The action will start with ESPN2 on Nov. 6 from 3:30-7 p.m. ET, with six Breeders&#8217; Cup Championship races, and will continue on Saturday, Nov. 7 with ABC from 1:30-3:30 p.m. ET and on ESPN from 3:30-7 p.m ET. Post time for the Breeders&#8217; Cup Classic is 6:45 ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race fans and horse lovers will have a rare opportunity on Saturday, November 7, to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}