Posts tagged Personal Ensign Stakes
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, [...]
Time for Rachel Alexandra to shine
Aug 29th
The real deal about to prove the doubters wrong or a fading star about to be found out? Even suggesting that Rachel Alexandra may no longer be one of the queens of American racing will be considered a sacrilege by her legion of followers. But now she has the chance to prove that when she [...]
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 [...]
Todd Pletcher’s Saratoga double
Aug 25th
Picking winners is never easy – just look at all those short-term loan adverts on the television – but the marketing gurus at the New York Racing Association are pushing a special double wager for Saratoga this weekend. Just find the winners of both the Grade One features, the Travers and Personal Ensign Stakes, which [...]
Rachel Alexandra runs on Sunday
Aug 24th
As befits one of the two divas of American horse racing, Rachel Alexandra will be upstaging the main event at Saratoga this weekend. The Travers Stakes may usually be the hot ticket for the entire Saratoga meeting but it is having to take a back seat this year. Whether Rachel Alexandra makes the main event [...]
Morning work for Rachel Alexandra
Aug 11th
A racecourse meeting between Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta seems as far away – both geographically and in terms of race programmes – as ever but the latest workout from the reigning Horse of the Year helped to keep the pot boiling. After Zenyatta maintained her perfect record with an 18th straight victory, in the Grade [...]
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