Will the girl beat the guys in the Preakness

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She's the favorite. Rachael Alexandra

I like Pioneer of the Nile.

Mine That Bird who won the Derby is in it as well.

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Apparently she did! Rachael Alexandra wins!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8511295

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Rachel Alexandra

Infobox last updated on: 23:14, Saturday May 16, 2009 (UTC).
Rachel Alexandra (foaled January 29, 2006 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred filly racehorse. Bred by Dolphus Morrison, who races the filly in partnership with Michael Lauffer, she was out of the mare Lotta Kim, a daughter of Claiborne Farm's multiple stakes winner, Roar. Rachel Alexandra was sired by Medaglia d'Oro, a multiple Grade I winner who retired with career earnings in excess of US$5.7 million. Grandsire, El Prado, was the Irish Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and the Leading sire in North America in 2002.

Trained by Hal Wiggins, at age two, Rachel Alexandra's most important win came in late November at Churchill Downs in the Grade II Golden Rod Stakes in which she set a new stakes record. She ended the year with a record of three wins and two seconds from six starts.


[edit] Racing career
Ridden by regular jockey Calvin Borel, at age three, Rachel Alexandra made her debut on February 15, 2009, with an 8-length win in the Grade III Martha Washington Stakes at Oaklawn Park. She then won the March 14 Grade II Fair Grounds Oaks in New Orleans on a sloppy track. On April 8 she returned to Oaklawn Park to easily win the Grade II Fantasy Stakes by 8¾ lengths. On May 6, 2009, the filly scored the most impressive win of her career, running away from the field to win the Grade I Kentucky Oaks by 20 1/4 lengths.

Shortly after her Oaks victory, on May 6, 2009, it was announced that Rachel Alexandra was sold to Jess Jackson's Stonestreet Stables and Harold T. McCormick. ESPN reported that she will be transferred to trainer Steve Asmussen.[1]


[edit] 2009 Preakness
Rachel Alexandra won the 2009 Preakness Stakes from the number 13 post, with Calvin Borel as her jockey.[2] She was the first filly to win the Preakness since 1924,[2] and the first horse to win from the outside position.


I haven't been happier to be wrong in quite some time.

I got side tracked this year and never even got to watch the derby but I was glad to see this race!

[BocaBum99 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close BocaBum99]

Okay, so when is a horse going to finally win the triple crown again?

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To the OP, Yes.

[basham Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close basham]

Okay, so when is a horse going to finally win the triple crown again?

It is a rare thing to win all three. No chance for a horse this year, but, perhaps a man.

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

Okay, so when is a horse going to finally win the triple crown again?

Only eleven horses have ever won in Triple Crown odds. The three races that make up Triple Crown odds (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont) are run within five weeks of each other and at different distances. That makes the list of horse racing Triple Crown winners very short.

Horse racing Triple Crown winners and their winning year are:
1919 Sir Barton
1930 Gallant Fox
1935 Omaha
1937 War Admiral
1941 Whirlaway
1943 Count Fleet
1946 Assault
1948 Citation
1973 Secretariat
1977 Seattle Slew
1978 Affirmed


There may have been two more but both the infamous Man O' War (1920), who destroyed the Triple Crown winner Sir Barton in a match race and took 6 seconds off the Kennilworth track record in that race, (I used to know WHY but have forgotten and can't find the reason he didn't go to Kentucky. I think it was a fued of some sort) and Pillory (1922), for some reason the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes were both run on May 13, 1922, did not run in the Kentucky Derby and won the Preakness and Belmont Stakes handily.


Strangely enough, there are only three decades that have produced horse racing Triple Crown winners after Sir Barton in 1919, the 1930’s, 1940’s and the 1970’s.

We are overdue and have been tormented by quite a few "almosts". 7 in the last 12 years. Horses that have won the first two but fell short in the last and most grueling race, The Belmont Stakes.

A JOCKEY winning the triple crown does not count but would be an interesting trivia/Jeopardy question. I think Mine That Bird would have caught that filly given a little more track. He'll get that in 3 weeks.

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On got on board with her when I found out it was Jess Jackson that owned her. Jess Jackson was the one of the creators of Kendell Jackson winery, so I am very familar with his background, well, other than his horse ownership.

I watched the race and was happy to see her win, and happy for Jess. I figure I have drank enough of his wine that we can be on a first name basis.

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One of the greatest races of the 20th Century, if not the greatest was the grudge race between Seabiscuit and War Admiral in 1938. They made a movie about the race. The best underdog winner ever.

YouTube - Seabiscuit vs. War Admiral - 1938 Match Race