A Grande Dame Rescues a Damsel in Distress

If not for the intervention of Marylou Whitney, Rachel Alexandra’s entry in tomorrow’s Preakness Stakes would have been a study in unsportsmanlike conduct. Instead, it is an illuminating lesson in grace and generosity.

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Rachel’s Invite to Preakness is Bleak-ness

Is that not like a bunch of boys? The fastest kid in the neighborhood is a girl and they won’t let her play with them. Rachel Alexandra looks like a major threat to one of the boys winning the Preakness so they figure the easiest way to beat her is to keep her off the [...]

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Borel + Rachel = Preakness?

News Source: Mason Levinson/bloomberg.net May 8 (Bloomberg) — Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Calvin Borel will make an historic switch and ride filly Rachel Alexandra if she is entered in the Preakness Stakes, the second event of thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown. It would be the first time a jockey who won the Derby then changed mounts and [...]

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Rolex Kentucky and Maryland Preakness In back-to-back NBC telecasts

NBC will telecast the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, held two weeks ago in Lexington, KY, on Saturday, May 16, at 3:30 p.m. That will be followed by the second leg of racing’s Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes, at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The sale this week of Kentucky Oaks’ winner Rachel Alexandra to Stonestreet [...]

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