News Source: BY JERRY BOSSERT/NYdailynews.com The Preakness has had some memorable moments. There was a drunken fan stumbling onto the track in 1999 to take a punch at Artax in a race on the undercard and the fantastic duel Sunday Silence and Easy Goer staged in 1989. Some were good, some bad, but one is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Derby upset’
Rachel Alexandra Recalls The Late, Great Genuine Risk
Posted in General Topics, tagged Calvin Borel, Derby upset, Genuine Risk, Mine That Bird, Preakness, Rachel Alexandra on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Borel rides 50-1 Gelding to Biggest Derby Upset Since 1913
Posted in General Topics, tagged Calvin Borel, Derby upset, Mine That Bird, winning geldings on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fast Facts: Mine That Bird is the ninth winning gelding of the Derby. The others, according to Bloodhorse.com, are: Vagrant (1876); Apollo (1882); Macbeth II (1888); Old Rosebud (1914); Exterminator (1918); Paul Jones (1920); Clyde Van Dusen (1929); and Funny Cide, (2003) Mine That Bird had biggest win mutuel since Donerail in 1913 He won [...]