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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The greatest horse in the world will get to stretch her legs in the Preakness

News Source: Rick Reilly/Life of Reilly/sports.espn.go.com/espnmag: If you love to see a strong female take on the boys, if you think fillies should be given every chance to compete with studs, if you despise sleazy efforts by rich men to keep girls off the field, we have a heroine for you. Her name is Rachel [...]

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Rachel Alexandra Recalls The Late, Great Genuine Risk

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 [...]

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Preakness Looks Possible for Rachel After All

News Source: LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The filly Rachel Alexandra apparently will get her shot to run with the boys in the Preakness. Mine That Bird owner Mark Allen said Monday he wouldn’t enter colt Indy Express into the second jewel of the Triple Crown. That clears the way for the Kentucky Oaks winner to [...]

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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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Mine That Bird Owners Offer Derby Roses as Tribute to Barbaro

Posted by Brisnet Editorial on May 03, 2009 Kentucky Derby (G1) fans who visited Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby Museum on the day after the 135th Run for the Roses got a surprise gift from the team behind MINE THAT BIRD (Birdstone), the 50-1 longshot that won the 1 1/4-mile classic on Saturday. Trainer [...]

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Borel rides 50-1 Gelding to Biggest Derby Upset Since 1913

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 [...]

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