Zenyatta - Vanity Handicap 2009

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