American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly (2009) American Horse of the Year (2009)
Honors
Rachel Alexandra Stakes (renamed in 2010) Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame (2011) National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (2016)
Rachel Alexandra (foaled January 29, 2006) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse and the 2009 Horse of the Year. When she won the 2009 Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown, she became the first filly to win the race in 85 years (the last filly to win was Nellie Morse, in 1924). She also won races in six states (Kentucky, Louisiana, Arkansas, Maryland, New York, and New Jersey), on eight different tracks, against fillies and Grade 1 colts and older horses, achieving a long string of consecutive wins including numerous Grade 1 stakes. Rachel Alexandra neared or broke multiple stakes records, track records and winning margin records throughout her career. On September 28, 2010, owner Jess Jackson announced Rachel Alexandra's retirement. She was bred to 2007–2008 Horse of the Year Curlin and delivered a colt on January 22, 2012.
Rachel Alexandra is a bay mare with a distinctive upside-down exclamation-point-shaped white blaze. She stands an estimated 16 hands at the withers. Her preferred style of running is generally that of a front runner (running on the lead) or a stalker (running close to and just behind the lead), though she occasionally competed from off of the pace (Mother Goose Stakes).
Rachel Alexandra was bred and originally owned by Dolphus Morrison, who named her after his granddaughter. Before she became successful as a racehorse, Morrison sold part interest in her to Michael Lauffer. Her initial trainer was Hal Wiggins, Morrison's regular trainer, who trained her until the Kentucky Oaks 2009. After her Kentucky Oaks victory, Rachel Alexandra was sold for an undisclosed amount (rumored to be in excess of $10 million) to Stonestreet Stables and Harold T. McCormick, with billionaire Jess Jackson of Kendall Jackson Winery holding controlling interest. Her training was taken over by Steve Asmussen, and her regular jockey was Calvin Borel.
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lengths in 1946. On May 1, 2009, Borel won the Kentucky Oaks aboard RachelAlexandra, only the second time since 1993 that a jockey has won the Oaks-Derby...
thoroughbred racing top attended events for North America in 2009. RachelAlexandra won by a length, holding off the rapidly closing 2009 Kentucky Derby...
The RachelAlexandra Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies at a distance of one and one sixteenth miles on the...
Borel opted to ride his regular mount, the filly RachelAlexandra, in the Preakness. RachelAlexandra had won the Kentucky Oaks by 20 lengths with Borel...
of the Year: Zenyatta or the equally brilliant three-year-old filly RachelAlexandra. Both were undefeated that year. Zenyatta had won the Breeders' Cup...
operation was Stonestreet Stables. The pair campaigned Curlin and RachelAlexandra. Another major client is Winchell Thoroughbreds, who own champions...
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5th-place finish in the Gasparilla Stakes. She then came in 3rd in the RachelAlexandra Stakes on February 15. She got her first graded stakes win on March...
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with impressive Kentucky Oaks winner RachelAlexandra. He was the second choice, behind heavy favorite RachelAlexandra. He broke well, moved up to fourth...
American Horse of the Year, RachelAlexandra. During the broadcast of the 2011 Kentucky Derby, it was announced that RachelAlexandra was expecting a foal,...
Contemporary categories. For example, in 2016, two female horses (RachelAlexandra and Zenyatta) were inducted at the same time. The museum also houses...
Crown winner, was defeated by Onion in the 1973 Whitney Handicap; RachelAlexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year, was beaten in the 2010 Personal Ensign...
and RachelAlexandra was a possible contender. Both horses were taken out of the race, though, Mine That Bird because of throat surgery and Rachel Alexandra...
consecutive Cheltenham Festivals Queensway: won the Canadian Triple Crown RachelAlexandra: filly and winner of the 2009 Preakness Stakes Rakwool: Australian...
Kentucky Derby in the same year. Borel won the Kentucky Oaks aboard RachelAlexandra Mine That Bird is the first Sovereign Award as champion two-year-old...
inherited the Winstanley shoe manufacturing business. Rachel and older sister, Simone attended Alexandra College in Milltown, Dublin, which she attended from...
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