Rachel Alexandra highlights Personal Ensign Stakes
Horseracing Betting Lines
08/26/2010 -
Saratoga Springs, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Rachel Alexandra, 2009 Horse of the
Year, gets back into action Sunday in the $300,000 Personal Ensign Stakes at
Saratoga Race Course. The four-year-old filly will take on four female
challengers in the 1 1/4-mile race, her first attempt at the distance.
"Rachel feels very much at home among the great Saratoga fans," said co-owner,
Jess Jackson when he announced that the filly would start in the Personal
Ensign. "It's an historic race, named after a great champion. The timing
is right for Rachel. She's been coming back into her stride and this will help
her prepare for the rest of her campaign and the Breeders' Cup later this
year."
Last year at Saratoga, Rachel defeated older male horses in the 1 1/8-
mile Woodward Stakes.
Rachel Alexandra, trained by Steve Asmussen, will again be ridden by Calvin
Borel and the pair will break from post two in the five horse field. Borel has
been the champion's only race rider the last 13 starts.
The champion filly won the $400,000 Lady's Secret Stakes at Monmouth Park on
July 24 in her most recent start. This year she has won two of four races,
including her last two, for $498,376. In her career she has earned nearly $3.5
million with 13 wins in 18 starts.
While Rachel is expected to be a heavy favorite on Sunday, she will face
formidable opposition.
Delaware Handicap winner Life At Ten should prove to be a difficult mare with
which to contend. The five-year-old, like Rachel, is a speed horse who went
wire-to-wire last time out at Delaware Park.
Trained by Todd Pletcher, Life At Ten will be ridden by John Velazquez from
post four. The chestnut mare, owned by Candy DeBartolo, is undefeated this
year in four starts. In addition to the Del 'Cap, Life At Ten has won the
Ogden Phipps, Sixty Sails and Rare Treat Stakes. In her career she has won
seven of 14 starts for $909,267.
"She's in very good form right now, and she's obviously on a winning streak,"
Pletcher noted. "I think her races this year have been better than some have
given her credit for, but I also think it's a very, very tall order to take on
Rachel Alexandra."
Here is the complete field for the Personal Ensign in post position order:
Miss Singhsix, Jose Valdivia, Jr.; Rachel Alexandra, Calvin Borel;
Persistently, Alan Garcia; Life At Ten, John Velazquez and Classofsixtythree,
Javier Castellano.
The Personal Ensign has a scheduled post-time of 6 p.m. (et).
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Brady Quinn (QB, Notre Dame)
Adrian Peterson (RB, Oklahoma)
Troy Smith (QB, Ohio State)
Michael Bush (RB, Louisville)
Steve Slaton (RB, West Virginia)
Brian Brohm (QB, Louisville)
Chris Leak (QB, Florida)
Mike Hart (RB, Michigan)
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Darius Walker (RB, Notre Dame)
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Chad Henne (QB, Michigan)
Kyle Wright (QB, Miami)
Drew Stanton (QB, Michigan State)
Kenneth Darby (RB, Alabama)
JaMarcus Russell (QB, LSU)
Drew Weatherford (QB, Florida State)
Blake Mitchell (QB, South Carolina)
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18-1
20-1
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