Jerry and Ann Moss, owners of 2010 Horse of the Year and three-time champion older mare Zenyatta, will speak at the University of Kentucky (UK) Equine Initiative Distinguished Industry Lecture Series Sept. 14. The event will be at 6 p.m. EDT in the College of Agriculture’s Seay Auditorium on the UK campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Dan Liebman, past editor-in-chief for The Blood-Horse magazine, will interview the Mosses. The informal conversation and question-and-answer session will cover their experiences with Zenyatta and her impact on Thoroughbred horse racing.

The Mosses purchased Zenyatta at the Keeneland September sale in 2005 for $60,000. The 7-year-old Street Cry (IRE) mare out of Vertigineux by Kris S. won 19 consecutive races in a 20-race career. Her only loss was a narrow defeat by Blame in the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Classic, held Nov. 6 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. She was retired at the end of the 2010 season and is currently at Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Ky., and she is currently in foal to Bernardini.

Trained by John Shirreffs, Zenyatta became the first female to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic in the 27-year history of the race in 2009. She also won the 2008 Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic. Zenyatta won three Eclipse Awards as champion older mare in 2008, 2009, and 2010 and was named Horse of the Year, the highest honor in American racing, in 2010. Other accolades include being voted the No. 2 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year in 2009 and 2010. Oprah Winfrey named her to the 2010 "O Power List" in O, The Oprah Magazine, and she was also featured in W Magazine and on "60 Minutes