Just had to post this for us horse lovers. June 9, 2007, the third leg of the Triple Crown, The Preakness, was run and although there will be no Triple Crown winner this year . . . . the Preakness was won by a filly named Rags-To-Riches. It is the first time in 102 years that a filly has won this race. The Preakness is 1 1/2 miles and that's a grueling distance for a 3 year old, especially a filly, but her trainer says this filly can gallop all day with little effort. She didn't run in the other 2 legs of the Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby and The Belmont). If she had, could we possibly have had a Triple Crown winner? We'll never know.
I watched the race on TV and when the gates opened for the 7 horses running, this filly who was number 7 and on the outside, literally stumbled out of the gate. At that moment, I thought she was done for. How could she recover from that stumble against these 3 year old colts? Well, she did. Coming into the home stretch she moved right up to the front and it was a 4-way tie for a few seconds. Then the favorite, Curlin, ran away from the pack and headed for home. Rags was right behind him and the 2 of them dueled for the lead, with Rags gaining on him the closer they got to the finish line. I had goose bumps and was yelling at the TV. I wanted her to win so bad, and she did.!!! You would have thought I was the owner. Heck, I didn't even know they were running a filly until I turned on the TV. After they crossed the finish line, the camera panned back and you could see that Curlin and Rags were WAY ahead of the rest of the pack.
So here's a tribute to the big filly that did it. Congratulations.
I'm glad I didn't miss this race. It was thrilling.
2 comments:
I too, caught the race and was shouting at the Television!
To make the race more interesting, Sara Jean, her niece and I had placed a $5 bet on a horse.
I chose "Rags", and I'm now $10 richer.
I've been a sucker for the fillies since my heart was broken by the Ruffian incident some years ago.
Please, no match races for "Rags"...
My heart couldn't take another Ruffian/Barbaro.
I was watching last year when Barbaro shattered his foot and I almost passed out before I realized I had been holding my breath the entire time because I couldn't take my eyes off his dangling rear foot. And for the next 8-9 months I kept up with any news they had on Barbaro. I was devastated when they had to put him down, but the poor horse had undergone so many operations on his foot, I couldn't believe they kept putting Barbaro through that. It was so sad.
They had a movie/documentary on Saturday night about Ruffian and I missed it.
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