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by Laura Baudo Sillerman
This story gets a little intricate, but try to stay with me, because, in the end, it’s the story of a good and smart woman doing the right thing.
Saturday’s Preakness Stakes, the second jewel in horse racing’s Triple Crown, allows for only fourteen horses. When the owner of Rachel Alexandra, a fabulous filly who ran The Kentucky Oaks rather than the Kentucky Derby, announced that he would seek that jewel at Pimlico on Saturday, Mark Allen--the owner of Derby winner Mine that Bird--announced he’d enter a second, lesser colt as well, with the express purpose of keeping out Rachel Alexandra. He thought he had good reasons for doing so.
In the Derby, the jockey who rode Allen’s Mine That Bird to glory was Calvin Borel — who is also Rachel Alexandra’s jockey. Some believe his courageous ride was the only reason Mine That Bird finished first at Churchill Downs. He almost certainly would have chosen to ride the filly over Mine That Bird. That was reason enough.
(photo- Will Kenser)
