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Okay so mommy news is a certain page that is quite special. This page will give the newest updates on the famous foals like Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra's foals and how the foals and their moms are doing. It will also include who is in foal and who is breeding to who! It should be updated around every three days. Pictures will be posted on here.

Rachel’s first foal already stirring Derby talk
Posted: May 01, 2012 11:55 AM EDTUpdated: May 01, 2012 6:10 PM EDTBy John Boel - [mailto:jboel@wave3.com?body=http://www.wave3.com/story/18001921/rachels-first-foal-already-stirring-derby-talk email]Posted by Charles Gazaway - [mailto:cgazaway@wave3.com?body=http://www.wave3.com/story/18001921/rachels-first-foal-already-stirring-derby-talk email]

The foal of Rachel Alexandra and Curlin poses for the camera.

LEXINGTON, KY (WAVE) - At Stonestreet Farm outside Lexington, they turn loose a wonderful irony every day: a horse with no name, conceived by two of the biggest names in the horse business.

"You're talking about two horses who are two of the biggest racehorses we've seen in the history of horse racing," said bloodstock agent John Moynihan.

Mom is Rachel Alexandra. Dad is Curlin. That's a DNA daily double in the breeding shed.

"He won the Preakness. She won the Preakness," said Moynihan. "He won the Woodward. She won the Woodward. He was Horse of the Year. She was Horse of the Year. All within the same close time frame. I don't think that's ever been done in history."

Rachel Alexandra sold for $3.5 million before she launched her devastating run through 2009. Curlin earned $10 million on the track - more than any horse in history. So you can imagine how nervous her handlers are at every step their gold colt takes.

"You do wake up a lot of times in the middle of the night hoping he's OK. When he was first born I was getting out of bed and actually going out and checking on him to make sure he was OK," said Gary Megibben, the manager of Stonestreet Farm.

About 30,000 thoroughbred foals are born every year, but only 20 make it to the starting gate of the Kentucky Derby three years later. So the odds are long on this colt even making it to onto the track at Churchill Downs on Derby Day.

"There's a lot of water under the bridge between now and getting him into the stall Derby Day," Moynihan said, "but given what I see today, he certainly has a great shot at it."

"All the foals here, you do dream they'll be a Kentucky Derby or Breeders' Cup horse," Megibben said. "You kind of dream the same dreams for them like you do your own kids."

Stonestreet Farm is expected to name the foal soon. Fans submitted more than 6,000 name suggestions in six days. One Las Vegas hotel is already offering bettors 60-1 odds on Rachel's foal making the Derby 141 field in 2015.

=Mother's Day special: Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra=

7:53pm on May 11, 2012; Modified: 7:16pm on May 12, 2012

What’s Mother’s Day without something sweet? And what could be sweeter than pictures of two of the most famous four-legged mothers in Central Kentucky — Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra — with their foals?
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In Sunday's Herald-Leader, find a special, keepsake Mother’s Day poster of both moms and their foals.

Zenyatta, 2010 Horse of the Year, and her Bernardini colt, born March 8, 2012, live at Lane’s End Farm, where they share the sunshine with a fellow broodmare, Spooky Minister, and her colt by Candy Ride. Zenyatta’s connections informed her fans this week via Twitter that she is now pregnant by Tapit.

Rachel Alexandra, 2009 Horse of the Year, and her Curlin colt, born Jan. 22, 2012, live nearby at Stonestreet Farm; her paddock pal, Hot Dixie Chick, also has a colt by Curlin. Rachel Alexandra is now carrying her own foal by Bernardini.

The two female superstars never met on the racecourse, but their myriad fans already are pinning their hopes on a match race of their babies at the 2015 Kentucky Derby.

In the meantime, both champions now live out their days growing the next generation of racing royalty.

Rachel Alexandra and her foal. Video by Janet Patton | Staff

Zenyatta and her foal. Video by Janet Patton | Staff

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/05/11/2184880/mothers-day-special-zenyatta-and.html#storylink=cpy

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Zenyatta has a special website where most of her updates will be done because she is so awesome! http://www.zenyatta.com/category/news

=Zenyatta pregnant again, this time with Tapit= The Associated Press –Tue, May 8, 2012 6:03 PM EDT* VERSAILLES, Ky. (AP) Zenyatta is pregnant with her second foal at Lane End's Farm.
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<p style="margin-top:11px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;">The superstar mare's owners, Jerry and Ann Moss, announced onFacebook and Twitter Tuesday that an ultrasound showed Zenyatta in foal after being bred to Tapit. Tapit is the sire of 2011 juvenile champion Hansen, who finished ninth in Saturday's Kentucky Derbyjust like his father did in the 2004 race.

<p style="margin-top:11px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;">The pregnancy period for a thoroughbred lasts about 11 months.

<p style="margin-top:11px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;">Zenyatta, a former horse of the year, won 19 of 20 career races before retiring in November 2010. She gave birth to a colt sired by Bernardini in March after having an earlier miscarriage with the 2006 Preakness winner. That colt does not have a name yet. @yahoosports on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook

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