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Once again the winner of the $250,000 Vanity Handicap (Grade I) won in last-to-first fashion, as Blind Luck swung wide to pass all five rivals through the stretch as the 9-to-5 second choice and edged 7-to-5 favorite Switch by half a length at the wire. Read More
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  • cpsoren121 · Blind Luck is a champ!! Sounds like we'll have some kind of rematch in the Delaware! · 235 days ago ·
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  • lsbrilliance77 · I AGREE THIS HORSE IS GREAT! · 188 days ago ·
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In April of 2004, while visiting my parents in New York, my dad and I took a trip to Belmont. The main purpose of the outing was to bet on a horse my husband’s employer was running in Kentucky. It was my father who suggested we go to the track to place our bets. I’m sure he didn’t think the local OT...Read More
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  • LizSnedden · great story....thought at first you were brought along up w/ the racing Phipps and it's long time history in the throughbred business, Refreshing to find out otherwise. It's wonderful of you to share your story and to help bring newer, younger, appreciative and enthusiastic(sp?) people to horse racing ..... Thank you... keep up the good work and enjoy the ponies :) · 233 days ago ·
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  • KyOaksRunner · A great father's day tribute!! · 232 days ago ·
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The $250,000 Grade I Vanity Handicap will not be quite the same without retired three-time winner Zenyatta but the distaff championship of the Hollywood Park will not be lacking for drama Saturday.   Champion Blind Luck and two females who finished close seconds to Zenyatta last year--St Trinia...Read More
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  • zXswordxz · hahahhaha....you know what they say about assumptions? · 234 days ago ·
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  • TimSmith · I thought the Vanity was a great race. blind Luck was awesome and the others ran really well! · 234 days ago ·
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Blind Luck has made it two back-to-back graded stakes scores with her impressive Vanity Handicap win and could be ready to challenge Havre de Grace yet again.Read More
Blind Luck came from last, and just in the nick of time, to power by her rivals in the Grade 1 Vanity Handicap today at Hollywood Park...Read More
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  • Silveyville · She is my hero! Big fan since the Starlet · 235 days ago ·
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  • BrianZipse · She is #3 on my list, Ann, and in the toughest of all divisions. · 235 days ago ·
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Blind Luck, St Trinians and Switch, who have combined to win 12 graded stakes, are among six fillies and mares entered in the $250,000 Vanity Handicap Saturday at Hollywood Park.Read More
  • yukichan · Sooooo excited for this race and the Ogden Phipps!! So many classy mares! Gotta go with St. Trinians, seeking redeemtion for her DQ. And gutsy Awesome Maria. · 238 days ago ·
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  • medlocke · St Trinians really likes that all-weather surface at Hollywood Park a great deal. She's run about as well over it as any other surface she's raced on since coming to America. But I just think that Switch's turn of foot might prove to be the difference in this race!! Switch defeated Blind Luck last season at Hollywood Park. Blind Luck is certainly not without a shot in this race. But I think she's about a half-length better on conventional dirt than she is on a synthetic surface. JMO. · 236 days ago ·
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Saturday’s Pick 6 from Hollywood Park includes two stakes races. First up is the Manhattan Beach (7th race) and Mizdirection and Mildly Offensive figure to battle throughout. The Grade 1 Vanity (8th race) looms an interesting contest between Blind Luck, St Trinians, and Switch. The latter seemingly ...Read More
Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer joked in the Hollywood Park stable area Sunday morning that he does not need to be reminded about birthdays any more since he is busy filling out Medicare forms for his 65th next Saturday.   Hollendorfer said that no gift would be more greatly appreciated than a victo...Read More
  • rohan2reed · i would like American Story to win this race if it was 1 1/16th. i'll put her with Switch and Blind Luck. · 241 days ago ·
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  • TimSmith · I ll say Switch Blind Luck, St trinians..In that order. · 240 days ago ·
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Brian Zipse runs through his favorite races of 2010. Read More
With a powerful closing kick she has never failed to deliver, Zenyatta remained perfect, running her way into history with a thrilling victory over St Trinians and four others in the $250,000 Vanity Handicap on Sunday at Hollywood Park.Read More
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  • mdracing69 · Zenyatta and St Trinians could meet again in the Aug 7 Clement Hirsch at Del Mar. The shorter distance (8.5f) of the Hirsch could favor St Trinians, who reportedly threw her left front shoe in the Vanity. · 605 days ago ·
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  • manderson1119 · I think Mike Mitchell should play a quick game of hide and go f*** himself......The DRF reports he texted John Sherrifs and told him to keep "Zenyatta out California". What a piece of crap, sore looser........and she threw a shoe???? No one that I know on and off the track at Holleywood park has mentioned that.........what a craptastic sore looser.... MIKE YOU LOST DEAL WITH IT DOUCHE BAG · 604 days ago ·
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 $250,000 Vanity Handicap Grade I 69th Running 1 1/8 Miles   Jockey Quotes    MIKE SMITH, ZENYATTA, Winner: "It's just incredible.  It was a great, great race.  It was a gallant effort on St Trinians' part, she really ran huge.  When we headed for home I hit a real...Read More
Zenyatta spent Sunday morning jogging 1 1-8 miles on Hollywood Park's main track and being walked at the stable in advance of her start in the $250,000 Vanity Handicap later in the day. Zenyatta is after her 17th consecutive victory in the Vanity, and an unprecedented third consecutive win...Read More
A ten race card is on tap for Sunday and all eyes will be glued to Zenyatta as she attempts to run her streak to seventeen wins from as may starts in the Grade 1 Vanity Handicap. The 129 pound heavyweight could have her hands full with talented mare St Trinians. Sunny skies are expected with a high ...Read More
Well, Sunday's the BIG DAY, race fans! Zenyatta will once again prance and power her way into the hearts of her adoring fans at Hollywood Park in the Grade 1 Vanity Handicap. The media is really gearing up, and this blogger was even interviewed for a Zenyatta piece in the Toronto Star...Read More
The 1-2-3 finishers of the La Troienne Stakes at Churchill Downs are all back in action this weekend, including Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra. Plus we get the addition of none other than Zenyatta to the card. There's one small catch: These four horses are in four different races across the nati...Read More
If you want to get racing folks unhinged, whisper a criticism of either Rachel Alexandra or Zenyatta, or their respective connections. Over at the Blood-Horse Jason Shandler has a blog and, apparently , a propensity for tickling the sleeping bear to see what will happen.  A few weeks ago, team ...Read More
Zenyatta will have five challengers when she attempts to race into history in the $250,000 Vanity Handicap Sunday at Hollywood Park.Read More
In her final major preparation for the $250,000 Vanity Handicap on Sunday at Hollywood Park, Zenyatta breezed six furlongs in 1:15 1/5 over Cushion Track this morning.   Hollywood Park clocker and morning line maker Russ Hudak said the 6-year-old Street Cry mare completed the final three-eight...Read More
  • medlocke · St. Trinians will be the best filly or mare that Zenyatta has faced thus far in 2010. By far. St. Trinians is a very legitimate contender, that's won some races since coming to America from racing in the UK. She had also won some races, or ran very well in races in the UK as well. Similar to a Tuscan Evening, although she hasn't won as much in America as Tuscan Evening. St. Trinians won the Paseana Handicap in January and the Santa Maria Handicap in February, a Grade I win. Many thought St Trinians was going to challenge Zenyatta in March in the Santa Margarita Handicap. But St Trinians connection passed on that race in favor of running her in the 2010 Santa Anita Handicap. Where she gave a very solid 6th place effort to a very good field of older males. I don't look for St. Trinians to beat Zenyatta. But I do look for her to run a big race in the Vanity Handicap. This is certainly a mare that Mike Smith doesn't want to fall asleep on, and give her too much rope in the race. Like he did in the 2009 Clement L. Hirsch at Del-Mar, when he left Zenyatta far too much to do, and took her far too wide to do it in that race. It was only Zenyatta's extraordinary athleticism that saved the race for them on that day. If Smith were to make that same kind of mistake against St. Trinians in this race? It could certainly cost Zenyatta the title of most consecutive win's in a row without a defeat that she's been chasing for some time. JMO. · 611 days ago ·
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Trainer John Shirreffs said Sunday that Zenyatta, undefeated in 16 races, will start under top weight of 129 pounds in the $250,000 Vanity Handicap on June 13 at Hollywood Park. On a day when Zenyatta will attempt to make history under jockey Mike Smith, Hollywood Park will honor  the champion...Read More
  • cigar · I was one of those hoping the 2010 Zenyatta campaign would feature some outside the box races and thinking. Guess not. · 612 days ago ·
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After St Trinians won the Grade 1 Santa Maria Handicap at Santa Anita on Feb. 13, outfinishing Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic winner Life Is Sweet, trainer Mike Mitchell gave serious thought to running against unbeaten superstar Zenyatta in the Santa Margarita Handicap the following month. Mitchell w...Read More

Race Results & Past Performances

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View DetailsView Video06/18/11Hol81 1/8 mS03+ FVanity Hcp-G1Blind LuckSwitchMiss Match1:50.89
View DetailsView Video06/13/10Hol81 1/8 mS03+ FVanity Hcp-G1ZenyattaSt TriniansZardana1:49.01
View DetailsView Video06/27/09Hol41 1/8 mS03+ FVanity Hcp-G1ZenyattaBriecatDawn After Dawn1:48.15
View DetailsView Video07/05/08Hol51 1/8 mS03+ FVanity Hcp-G1ZenyattaTough Tizs SisSilver Swallow1:49.51
View Details07/07/07Hol31 1/8 mS03+ FVanity Hcp-G1Nashoba's KeyBalanceHystericalady1:48.83
View Details06/21/03Hol81 1/8 mD03+ FVanity Hcp-G1AzeriSister Girl BluesBare Necessities1:48.48
View Details06/22/02Hol31 1/8 mD03+ FVanity Hcp-G1AzeriAffluentCollect Call1:48.88
View Details07/06/75Hol81 1/8 mD03+ FVanity Hcp-G1Dulcia Susan's GirlLa Zanzara 1:47.40
View Details07/07/73Hol81 1/8 mD03+ FVanity Hcp-G1ConvenienceMinstrel MissSusan's Girl1:47.80
View Details06/03/72Hol81 1/8 mD03+ FVanity HcpConvenienceTypecastStreet Dancer1:47.40
View Details10/06/45Hol71 1/16 mD03+ FVanity Hcp-G1BusherCaninaPaula's Lulu1:43.80