For the fourteenth year MAGGIE MAE DESIGNS® of Cape Cod and Old Friends in Kentucky and Cabin Creek are teaming up again for “Hats Off to the Horses: The Road to the Derby”!
“Hats Off” is an unparalleled Derby hat fundraising experience sponsored by MAGGIE MAE DESIGNS® Custom Millinery. This auction series features four one-of-a-kind Derby hats created to benefit the retired racehorses of Old Friends. All proceeds from the sale of the hats go to Old Friends. To learn more about this exciting online fundraiser, please click on “About Hats Off to the Horses”.
The first auction hat up for bid for the 2026 “Hats Off to the Horses” fundraiser honors Kentucky-bred, Cozmic One.
Bidding on the “Cozmic One” auction hat has now ended.
Congratulations to Donna P. of Georgetown, KY who is our winning bidder of the “Cozmic One” hat! Thank you to our terrific models, Andie Biancone and Keith Asmussen, and to Lowcountry Lens for her fabulous photos of the photo shoot at Dream Chase Farm. And please stay tuned, our February auction hat flies up on February 1st!
The Story of Cozmic One
Owned by Ann Holbrook and her late ex-husband, Jerry Moss, Cozmic One was legendary race mare Zenyatta’s first foal by 2006 Preakness Stakes and Travers winner, Bernardini. Zenyatta was the 2010 Horse of the Year, a Hall of Famer and beloved the world over. Deemed one of the greatest racehorses of all time, Zenyatta had the eyes of the world upon her at the birth of her first foal.
In an October 3, 2024 press release Ann Moss described the dark bay foal’s March 8, 2012 birth as a “magical night”. Moss continued, “First, it was a full moon. And, then there was this incredible snow that was just falling vertically, but the snowflakes were like five-inches long and they looked like feathers. Also, it was Women’s Day, so I thought it was honoring his mama, Zenyatta, too.”
A John Shirreffs trainee, Cozmic One began his career relatively late, in 2015 as a 3-year-old. He continued to race as a 4-year-old, without much success. However he did have a second career show jumping under the care of Sergio de Sousa, and his daughter, Isabela. Notably, Cozmic One competed in the Kentucky Horse Park’s 2018 Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Makeover.