Owners seek stallion for champion mare

VERSAILLES, Ky., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The owners of racing champion Zenyatta said they will soon announce their pick of stallion to father the mare's offspring in Kentucky.

Jerry and Ann Moss of California said 7-year-old Zenyatta, who won 19 of 20 starts, will be bred at Lane's End Farm in Versailles with the chosen stallion, which is expected to be announced Monday, in the hopes of creating foals with their mother's knack for speed, The New York Times reported Friday.

"Maybe most important of all, she has two healthy ovaries," Lane's End farm manager Michael Cline said. He said healthy ovaries can be rare "with mares that have been at the racetrack as long as she has."