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Rachel Alexandra was the first filly or mare ever to win the Woodward Stakes. She also was the first 3-year-old filly to win a grade I route dirt race against older males in New York since Lady Primrose won the Manhattan in 1887. [ 21 ]
In 1973, Secretariat lost the Woodward to Prove Out, who set a stakes record for the then-current distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles. The next year, Forego began a four-year win streak. Triple Crown winners Seattle Slew and Affirmed also won the race during the 1970s. In 2009 at age three, Rachel Alexandra became the first female to win the Woodward ...
The Rachel Alexandra 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 dirt run annually in February at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. The event currently offers a purse of $300,000.
On September 5 of the same year, he rode Rachel Alexandra to a historic victory in the Woodward Stakes. It was the first time a filly of any age had won that storied race. Borel was named the winner of the 2010 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.
The draw for The Preakness Stakes was done on Wednesday, May 13, 2009, near the stakes barn at Pimlico Race Course. [3] Rachel Alexandra was made the morning line 8-5 favorite, the first filly accorded that status since 1988. [3]
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However, Rachel Alexandra won the Kentucky Oaks, the filly equivalent of the Kentucky Derby, and then beat males in the Preakness Stakes, becoming the first filly to win that race since 1924. She also won the Haskell Invitational and the Woodward Stakes. As a result, Rachel Alexandra won the balloting by 130 votes to Zenyatta's 99. [54]