Tag: Mike Smith

Drosselmeyer wins the Belmont

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Uncharacteristically for me I missed watching the Belmont live. Perhaps it was because there was no chance of a Triple Crown winner, or that that there just wasn’t very much hype about the race this year. Certainly it wasn’t because I was doing something more interesting . . . I was, in fact, shepherding my […]

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Who will ride Mine That Bird in the Belmont?

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Mine That Bird is having a hard time keeping a jockey. You’d think that a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby and comes in second in the Preakness would not be looking for a ride two weeks before the last leg of the Triple Crown, but circumstances have worked against him. Calvin Borel thought he’d […]

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Rachel Alexandra becomes the fifth filly to win the Preakness

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In case you missed the race, here’s the Preakness. Amazing rides by Calvin Borel and Mike Smith. The question is: would Mine That Bird have caught Rachel Alexandra if he’d gotten clear of the field a bit earlier? Or would the filly have dug in and pulled away?

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