All amazing but Zenyatta's finishes give me chills. Every time she ran from the back and just flew into high gear overtake mode.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

Wow! Zenyatta is my horse, but Winx is astounding!

All these mares are incredible ! Queen Z is my fav

Thanks for the memories

Winx what amazing mare

" WINX " NOBODY BETTER......MALE OR FEMALE.......ICON LEGEND......WOW....WOW.......!!!

Winx the undefeated still makes my heart sing every time I see her races. A legend truely 💖 I hope she’s enjoying retirement 😊

Amazing that with these mares and the bloodlines they were crossed with, that nothing exceptional became of any of their offspring.

Winx and zenyatta have the same dad they are the best ❤

This might be my favorite vid!!!

Amazing video off great mare s , i love it .❤

How cool! Enable's first foal was born on my birthday.

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♥️ 🐎

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

WINX UPDATE: Gave birth to a filly foal to stallion pierro on 8th october 2022.. Both well and healthy.

i keep up with enable news cause shes my favorite!

Awesome sauce!

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.....!!!

NICE

EXCELLENT ZABARDAST

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

Zenyatta is doing the Spanish walk! Lol

I know Rags had a 5lb advantage, but that filly showed a ton of guts outdueling the Great CURLIN!!

GOOD to see anyone CARES....... 💓💓💓💓

Secretariat produced several amazing horses. Everyone kept expecting him to reproduce himself. But he was one of a kind.

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.

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.

Girl power all the way!!

WINX‼️ Amazing.

Let’s have a look at the dams of these wonderful mares . They are the dams that bred the winners.

Zenyatta’s canter. 😍

Winx. Simply the best we have ever seen. An absolute freak.

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.

Sometimes we as humans try to create greatness which we cant....Breeding these great fillies to great stallions RARELY WORKS...SAD..

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.

songbird podria estar en la lista. Sera para la próxima edición.

Loved Zenyatta. Mike Smyth's fault she lost.

surprised they didn't have Black Caviar on here?? she was awesome!!

Where is Black caviar

Fabulous horses -- but let's give the jockys due credit, too! 🐎🐎🐎💖

Her ears are unmistakable

Actually the work you do is well done. Move on...👍👍👍

don't know if you experts have heard of a horse called black caviar.

Fifty carets? She is a legend! Most if not all of her foals were amazing

Black Caviar the best I'll ever see.

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.

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.

What about Personal Ensign or Winning Colors.

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. 💞🤠

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

Ah, Beholder.

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.

Zennyatta will always be the Queen but HTF did Rachel Alexandra make this list and Black Caviar not???

black caviar??

Zenyatta has had such bad luck in breeding. Poor gal.

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!!??

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).

Enable retired to stud?!?! Huh? She is a female horse not a male!

Where does Winning Colors rank? 😁✌🏼

Amat menyeronokan..

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.

what, no Songbird? Much as I despise racing, at least here is a tribute to the long suffering mares too....

11..O3...GOOD HORSES

Black Cavier, Makybe diva?

Why does this condescending announcer make a point to say she defeated Mine That Bird?!?! She defeated all the other horses too. Biased much?

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

You need a proof reader (a real horse person) for the captions....they need some help...

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.

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 "

I can’t say how good Winx was because she never raced in America!?!

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.

Will the horse who lost to rags to riches be transing to mare?

None of them produced…

I can understand breeding a mare, but year, after year, after year is ridiculous.

Much as I love Zenyatta…Winx is the greatest of all time. Let’s hope she produces one as good as herself….🐎

It would be awesome if they could have done a match race with all of these amazing mares, if only Ruffian was still around 🖤

Running Winx in 33 races.?! Greedy bastards!

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.

All the stellion it was...

those usa jockeys give their horses a good thrashing, is there no limit to how many times they can hit a horse?

Why isn't black caviar on this list of great race mares?

Rags to riches is definitely a colt producer cause she has only had colts

This is terribly sad to see these mares overbred. Terrible industry, terrible owners.

Zilkha????

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

An interesting idea was put to me some years ago when I was actively involved in "bloodstock breeding" in Africa. It was this, that where one has a filly that can compete and win in open races against colts, it is because the filly carries a higher than usual percentage of testosterone. The excess of this male hormone that gives the filly her athletic ability, may well also hamper her reproductive ability...

Zenyatta did'nt earned THAT 💔

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...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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

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.