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He cost $3.7 million at the yearling sales and was among the most hyped 3-year-olds this spring, reasons that Dunkirk was supposed to produce in the Kentucky Derby. It did not turn out that way. Trained by Todd Pletcher, he finished 11th, never ...
To the legions of Barbaro fans and there are many still out there the turf course at Delaware Park is hallowed ground. It is there that Barbaro won at first asking, signaling that he had quite a future. So it was fitting last week when his younger ...
Under Borel, Rachel Alexandra became the first filly to win the Preakness in 85 years, beating the hard-closing Mine That Bird by a length on Saturday. Mine That Bird won the Kentucky Derby two weeks earlier.
Smith announced his intention to honor a ...
BALTIMORE Having etched a place in horse racing history with her victory Saturday in the Preakness Stakes, Rachel Alexandra can add another footnote to her illustrious career in less than three weeks. No filly has ever won two legs of the Triple Crown. ...
jockey in history to take off a Derby winner in the Preakness, was just one of a number of major developments in the two weeks between Triple Crown races. After Rachel Alexandra won the Kentucky Oaks against fillies by 201/4 lengths, then owner Dolphus ...
From BILL FINLEY THE NEW YORK TIMES,
Salt Lake Tribune,
16 May 2009
the two weeks between Triple Crown races. After Rachel Alexandra won the Kentucky Oaks against fillies by 20 1/4 lengths, owner Dolphus Morrison said he had no intention of pitting her against males. But Jess Jackson, who started the Kendall-Jackson ...
From BILL FINLEY,
TwinCities.com,
16 May 2009
BALTIMORE There was about a sixteenth of a mile left to run in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, six seconds or so of horse racing in which Rachel Alexandra would show what she was all about. She had the lead and the wire was fast approaching, yet the ...
BALTIMORE When the trainer Chip Woolley started looking for a replacement for Calvin Borel, he wanted somebody who reminded him of Borel, the winning jockey in the Kentucky Derby. That meant finding a rider with experience, patience and a proven record ...
BALTIMORE D. Wayne Lukas knows how to win a Triple Crown race with a filly. He did it in 1988 with Winning Colors, the last filly to win the Kentucky Derby. He also knows something about how to stop one from winning a Triple Crown race. In 1980, his ...
BALTIMORE David Fawkes’s plan unraveled one winter morning at Calder Race Course when his talented 3-year-old colt kicked himself in his stall. Big Drama was on his way to surgery, and not the Kentucky Derby.
Fawkes, a trainer based in Florida, had ...
