Zenyatta gives weight in Vanity

Zenyatta (right) just eked out victory in last season's Vanity (Benoit Photos)

Undefeated champion ZENYATTA (Street Cry [Ire]) will be giving away

13-18 pounds when she goes as the 129-pound highweight in Saturday's

$300,000

Vanity H. (G1) at Hollywood Park. A field of eight has been entered

in the 1 1/8-mile Cushion Track test, with Zenyatta seeking to continue

her 10-race win streak while making her second start of the year.

Last year's Vanity saw Zenyatta win by her shortest margin to date,

only a half-length, and she'll be carrying five more pounds this time

around. She successfully defended her title in the Milady H. (G2) while

toting 126 pounds in her 2009 bow last out, her first race since taking

the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic (G1) in late October. That victory

wrapped up her title as champion older mare, and Mike Smith, aboard

since the dark bay mare captured last year's Apple Blossom H. (G1), will

take up the reins once again Saturday.

DAWN AFTER DAWN (Successful Appeal) will have to carry the second

highest weight in the Vanity, assigned 116 pounds under Garrett Gomez.

The bay five-year-old has racked up two wins this year, both in grass

stakes, and will probably relish the return to a synthetic track

following her past five races on turf. Trained by John Sadler, the mare

should also enjoy the stretch out 1 1/8 miles after running ninth last

out in the one-mile Redondo Beach S.