Replay is already posted on Bloodhorse.com.
it was fabulous
The other two were also front runners, and Calvin let them go, first quarter in 22 and change, and I think the second was 44 and change. Rachel just sat back waitin and waitin, and when she moved, Calvin never cracked his stick. New record, competion, beat themselves.
Curlin didn’t run well on the synthetic, and it is his right to run or not. Me thinks Dancer, you just do not care for how he slurps his soup!
did you see the loop in his reins?? How incredible was that!!!
Run Like A Girl!!
The girl was just toying with her competition today.
Rachel A. is so Tea Leoni’s overachieving Deborah Clasky from Spanglish:
“Left!” …and then “I love you for trying!” as she overtakes Flor…
Whoa! What a race!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TJTnJSrSBc
I love it when men, TomDurkin and Calvin, get emotional about her:yes:!
I was waiting for Calvin to do a handstand or something at the eighth pole, great race!
YOU GO GIRL!
My tickets for the Travers came yesterday. I am, in fact, holding my breath. :lol:
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My tickets for the Travers came yesterday. I am, in fact, holding my breath. :lol:[/QUOTE]
Wear comfy shoes…my only mistake on Travers day was not doing this!
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Wear comfy shoes…my only mistake on Travers day was not doing this![/QUOTE]
I made that mistake for my first Travers- thought I’d get all gussied up.
I’ve been several times and do not make that mistake any longer. I can be gussied in walking shoes, thankyouverymuch. 
I only now got home from a concert to see her run.
Spectacular!
To those who scoff at her as being anything less then approaching super-filly status they are mistaken. Not only did she jog home the last few hundred yards - and still set the stakes record - but she she was just slightly off the track record for the distance set by Secretariat at 1:45.2 … if even asked she could’ve broken that record handily. Simply Wow!
Rachel Alexandra rolled to a devastatingly easy 19 1/4-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 1, $300,000 Mother Goose before a crowd of 13,352 on a gorgeous summer day in New York.
Rachel Alexandra’s time of 1:46.33 established a stakes record, beating the time of 1:46.58 set by Lakeway in 1994. Her margin of victory was also a record, eclipsing the 13 1/2-length win by Ruffian in 1975. Saturday was the 53rd Mother Goose.
What a day! Photos of Rachel winning the Mother Goose and after the race:
Great pics!
Also
AP photo: NYRA/Adam Coglianese in the stretch
AP photo: NYRA/Adam Coglianese finish line with fans at the rail
As of this monring she is now at Saratoga Race Course for her summer 
She left Elmont NY for the Northway 87-N in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
Rachel Alexandra, who extended her record to 9-2-0 from 12 starts with earnings of $1,798,354, arrived at Saratoga mid-morning and took up residence in Curlin’s former stall in Asmussen’s barn near the Oklahoma training track.
“She shipped great,” said assistant trainer Scott Blasi, who accompanied Rachel Alexandra to Saratoga. "She’s settled into Curlin’s old stall, which is now her stall, right next to my office.
“She recovered very well,” added Blasi. “She seemed strong yesterday and was starving when we fed her last night, and ate everything this morning, as well.”
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…she she was just slightly off the track record for the distance set by Secretariat at 1:45.2 … if even asked she could’ve broken that record handily.[/QUOTE]
For the record the nine-furlong Belmont track record of 1:45.40 was set by Secretariat in the inaugural Marlboro Cup Sept. 15, 1973.
… [Rachel Alexandra] ran 1 1/8 miles in a stakes-record 1 minute, 46.33 seconds while being eased. That was less than a second slower than Secretariat’s 1973 track record of 1:45 2/5, and Big Red was working hard all the way.
As good as. . .
If she keeps going like this (and God knows that IF is a very, very heavy word in the world of racehorses), might she be compared to, y’know. . .
Ruffian? (There. I said it).
I was thinking NYRA just might up the ante to encourage the setting - a la a $500k bonus applicable to the winner of X races - and it looks like they are pondering it:
Times Union June 28, 2009 “Rachel is in the house”
Zenyatta vs. Rachel at Saratoga. In either the $300,000 Go for Wand at 1 1/8 miles on Aug. 2 or the $400,000 Personal Ensign at 1 1/4 miles on Aug. 30. Or both. To make it even more appealing to Moss, the New York Racing Association could up the ante by changing the purse structure and hiking the price tags of those two races.
It’s something Charlie Hayward, the President and CEO of NYRA is thinking about although he has not had any direct contact with Moss, co-founder of A&M Records (Zenyatta is named after the third album of The Police, Zenyatta Mondatta).
“NYRA generally does not sweeten pots or provide incentives but this could be a situation that might warrant that consideration,” Hayward said Sunday in an e-mail.
And I’m not sure this is all about Curlin. Jackson is a Californian who breeds Calbreds and runs horses here. He’s probably had his fill of synthetic injuries. Do you know that many of the horses up North run partially barefoot because the surface is so grabby, horses get hind end injuries if they run with back shoes? Not to mention the Pam trick down here because the stuff balls up in their feet. The heavy supporters of the synthetics are pretty muted lately since it has not fulfilled any of its promises (full fields, low injury rates, easy maintenance, ship ins from all over the country) and now this. Here is the owner of Zenyatta commenting on Jackson’s position:
“I’m not too crazy about the synthetic tracks either. I don’t mind him talking up about that, maybe it will serve a purpose,” Moss said. “And hopefully we will meet somewhere. If not the Breeders’ Cup, maybe it will be somewhere else. I think time will tell on something like that and we will go from there.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/27/AR2009062702531.html
What Gary Stute says…
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What a day! Photos of Rachel winning the Mother Goose and after the race:
Rachel-mania in the winner’s circle
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She is such a huge horse… big girl!!!
For the record Rachel Alexandra’s Beyer Speed Fig (BSF) for the Mother Goose Stakes was an impressive 111. By comparison Zenyatta’s Vanity Stakes earned a nice 104 BSF.
