She just aborted her '18 foal: https://www.horseracingnation.com/ne…_continues_123
What terrible luck for this lovely mare. I know she’s still reasonably young, but things have not gone well for her and her connections 
Some of the report are saying she aborted back in April. It’s always sad, but especially sad when they are so close to their due date.
Poor Z. She does seem to love being a mother, too. She always looks so happy with her foals.
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very sad. In studying animal reproduction most abortions during pregnancy are caused by a developmental error/defect. It’s nature’s way of saying things will not work out. It’s usually not a glaring/obvious defect either but more on the gene level. Of course; environment and eating something bad can cause it as well but developmentally; it’s mostly nature running its course. It’s even more sad when they are close to their due date and the foal is near to term. Hopefully they try again this year and she has better luck in 2019. It’s clear she is well cared for as she is always glowing in her photos
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I absolutely love her and this must be so heart breaking for everyone, especially Z. She’s such a good mommy and clearly loves it.
FYI, absolutely none of this has been confirmed by anyone official, from either Lane’s End or Zenny’s team. Right now, it is nothing but a rumor.
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Yeah, but the sources are pretty reliable. It’s not just some no one’s blog.
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I would say this is pretty reliable…
An official Equineline mare produce record indicated late Wednesday that Zenyatta has lost her 2018 foal by Into Mischief. Equineline noted the foal, which had been due this spring, has been aborted.
Both Z and RA have had the worse luck with their offspring. Genuine Risk also seemed to have the worst luck as a broodmare. Mares who don’t produce are probably more “noticeable” as they can have, at most, one per year while stallions can have many offspring and are much less involved in the carrying and foaling of their offspring.
Heartbreaking for Z and her connections.
How very sad, but doesn’t she have several foals on the ground? some nice ones too?
Not making light of her losing one, just asking.
She’s had 4 healthy foals out of 6 pregnancies. So, not as bad as the other top mares.
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She has two older horses who have raced, Cozmic One and Ziconic, and an unnamed yearling filly by Medaglia D’Oro.
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Winning Colors who raced until she was 4 and died at age 23. Had 10 foals after being a broodmare for 19 years.
Personal Ensign who raced as a 4 year old and was retired as a broodmare at age 22 “only” had 10 foals.
Genuine Risk only had 2 live foals. She died at age 31
Its sometimes hard to separate out the one filly (pasture accident as weanling) from the colt that died shortly after birth and this current loss. All fall into the sad and bad luck category, but the first wasn’t related to the mare carrying the foal to term problem free.
Love this mare and know that her connections obviously want the best for her. I’m not in the TB business but if she were mine, I’d begin to think about calling it quits on the breeding. Not saying they will feel the same, or should; just one person’s personal feeling.
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I am not a vet but I am not sure the colt who died a couple days after birth was really anything but bad luck either. I thought what he died of wasn’t really her “fault,” so to speak. So if that’s the case you can really only pin this most recent one “on” her. At 14, she’s nowhere near too old to worry and honestly, if she were mine I’d want to try and get a couple more fillies on the ground. She’s in presumably good health and I get the sense the connections will always do what’s best for her, but a run of bad luck doesn’t make her, in my opinion, any more of a risk to breed than any other mare.
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Its my understanding that meconium syndrome begins with problems in utero, therefore something wasnt right. In the current situation, the foal was lost due to some problem in utero. Yes there is bad luck involved with each of her lost foals. But to me these two situations are more similar than the weanling filly. Yes she is still young enough and apparently healthy enough to continue to breed, I dont have a problem with that, i just personally dont think my nerves could take it.
Maybe it was mentioned, but I didnt see it. Will she or has she been bred again this year?
Nothing mentioned. I don’t blame them for not sharing. People will comment that Z didn’t have enough time to grieve the loss.
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I would guess that they will not breed he4 this year. Obviously, this foal was due in late may, so it was already stretching the outer limits of foaling dates.
If they give her this year off, then she can get back to a Feb cover date.
Her foaling date tells me that she has had to be covered several times before she caught — which already makes her a hard to get in foal mare.
PS: Her first foal is looking lovely as a green show hunter. Seems like that is what he wants to do.
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She did lose her first pregnancy very early on, reabsorbing a Bernardini embryo. It was that year’s second cover to Bernardini that produced Cozmic One.
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