Jockey Calvin Borel knew Rachel Alexandra was in trouble with a quarter-mile to go in the $300,00 Personal Ensign at Saratoga Race Course.
Jockey Calvin Borel knew Rachel Alexandra was in trouble with a quarter-mile to go in the $300,00 Personal Ensign at Saratoga Race Course.
Afleet Express was making his bid, coming off the far turn, moving away from the rail and gaining the lead from Miner's Reserve just past the eighth pole in Saturday's $1 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.
First Dude has done just about everything in really big races except finish first.
Rachel Alexandra will not have it easy when the reigning Horse of the Year takes on four rivals in the $300,000 Personal Ensign Invitational on Sunday at Saratoga Race Course.
So, Super Saver, what have you done lately?
As the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winners surged to the lead around the far turn in the $1 million Haskell Invitational, more than 40,000 fans stood and cheered in anticipation of a thrilling stretch duel.
The Haskell Invitational never had it so good.
Bob Baffert has been psyched all week, confident his Preakness winner Lookin At Lucky is ready to run another huge race in the $1 million Haskell Invitational on Sunday.
Sure looks and sounds like Rachel Alexandra is back in top form.
Nick Zito is a long-shot kind of trainer, it seems.
No one is in more of a New York state of mind these days than Nick Zito.
A horseplayer since his teens while growing up in London, Richard C. Pell could be on the verge of the greatest score of his life - winning the Belmont Stakes.
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