Posts tagged Calvin Borel
Calvin Borel off Mine That Bird ride for Woodward Stakes
Sep 2nd
This will probably be a week that Calvin Borel will prefer to forget. First Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver was a dismal 10th of 11, beaten 24 lengths, in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga on Saturday. Twenty-four hours later Borel rode the same 10 furlongs in the Personal Ensign Stakes and for eight of them [...]
What next for Rachel Alexandra?
Aug 30th
A trainer with enough years of experience to qualify for every long-service award going once said: “I’ve only heard of three racing certainties – and two of them got beaten.” For a mile of the Personal Ensign Stakes at Saratoga, Rachel Alexandra looked form the grandstand as though she could be that exception, except that [...]
Shock defeat for Rachel Alexandra in Personal Ensign Stakes
Aug 29th
Rachel Alexandra was a shock loser to Shug McGaughey’s Persistently in the Personal Ensign Stakes at Saratoga. Steve Asmussen’s filly, racing over 10 furlongs for the first time, was facing only four rivals, all of whom were considered inferior. The main threat was expected to be Life At Ten, winner of her last six starts, [...]
Travers Stakes preview
Aug 27th
Rather like the ageing star, the Travers Stakes is finding itself upstaged by a relative upstart as this year’s Saratoga meeting reaches its climax. Given that the Travers predates even the Kentucky Derby, and has been the magnet race that has drawn crowds to the Spa track for most of its 146-year history, it would [...]
Field of five in Personal Ensign Stakes
Aug 26th
Rachel Alexandra has been drawn in stall two of a field of five for the Grade One Personal Ensign Stakes at Saratoga on Sunday. The reigning Horse of the Year is the odds-on market leader for what is her first run in a Group One race this season, with Calvin Borel in the saddle for [...]
Rachel Alexandra wins Lady’s Secret Stakes
Jul 25th
Rachel Alexandra completed the formality of claiming her 13th victory in 18 starts in the Lady’s Secret Stakes at Monmouth Park. The doubts that had been expressed after Rachel Alexandra had been beaten in her first two starts of the season had been forgotten when she won the Grade Two Fleur de Lis Stakes at [...]
Rachel Alexandra on track for Saturday
Jul 20th
Rachel Alexandra completed her preparations for her run on Saturday with a half-mile early morning workout at Saratoga. The 2009 Horse of the Year breezed over four furlongs, a gallop which was clocked in 49.60 seconds, as her trainer, Steve Asmussen put the final touches to the filly before she runs in the Lady’s Secret [...]
Rachel Alexandra gets back on track with a win
Jun 12th
Rachel Alexandra gets back on track with a win Defeats in her first two races of the season had cast doubts about whether Rachel Alexandra could recapture the form that took her through an unbeaten eight-race streak last season, but she returned to her imperious best with an emphatic victory in the Grade Two [...]
Zenyatta goes for history at Hollywood
Jun 9th
Zenyatta’s two victories this season puts her on an unbeaten record of 16, which matches the achievements Cigar, the Dubai World Cup and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner of the 1990s, and the 1948 Triple Crown winner Citation at the table of American racing. She run next in the Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park on Sunday. [...]
Todd Pletcher affirms belief in Super Saver
May 14th
Here we go again. It took far less than the two minutes and 4.45 seconds Super Saver spent galloping around Churchill Downs to win the 136th Kentucky Derby before the inevitable question was posed: Is he the one? Britain may like to believe itself to be the home of tradition but it is our trans-Atlantic [...]
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