Posts tagged Steve Asmussen
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 [...]
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 [...]
Seven run in Lady’s Secret Stakes
Jul 22nd
If Rachel Alexandra is beaten in the Lady’s Secret Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday it will be one of the shocks of the season. But it will certainly not be for the want of trying by those closest to the 2009 Horse of the Year. The $400,000 race, which was previously worth $250,000 until [...]
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 [...]
Still waiting on Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra clash
Jul 3rd
The latest course trying to engineer the first meeting between the two queens of stateside racing is Monmouth Park. They achieved part of their goal when they enticed Rachel Alexandra’s owners away from Saratoga. However, the match-up that officials and racegoers had been hoping for is, it appears, still on a drawing board somewhere, quite [...]
Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra back in training
Jun 29th
The clash between Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra, which has been mooted ever since Zenyatta returned from one of the briefest sporting retirements in January, had been on the back burner following defeats for Rachel Alexandra in her first two starts of the year. Normal service was resumed when Rachel Alexandra won the Grade Two Fleur [...]
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. [...]
Rachel Alexandra beaten again
Apr 30th
Perhaps it is the weight of the accolade that is holding her back but being voted Horse of the Year has clearly not agreed with Rachel Alexandra. Running for the second race since winning that title in January, Rachel Alexandra was beaten again, this time by Unrivalled Belle in a hard-fought finish at Churchill Downs. [...]
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