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Snyder bought the horse in early 2010 for $4,500, including his life savings of $2,000, with the balance to be paid after her first win. The filly was named after Snyder's late wife, Lisa, who, before her death, said she would reincarnate as a horse. "I don’t really believe so much in reincarnation," Snyder has been quoted as saying.
Work All Week (March 9, 2009 – November 13, 2023) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. A specialist sprinter bred in Illinois , he had won twelve of his fifteen races. He spent most of his career racing in the Mid-West winning races such as the Tex's Zing Stakes, Lightning Jet Handicap, Hot Springs Stakes and Iowa Sprint Handicap.
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).
Silky Sullivan was joint favorite with the Jimmy Jones-trained Tim Tam, a dark-bay son of Tom Fool (ranked #11 by Blood-Horse magazine of the 100 best U.S. Thoroughbred racehorses of the 20th century) out of the winning mare Two Lea (ranked #77)—herself a daughter of Bull Lea, Calumet Farm's well-known sire.
He ran the Derby's mile-and-a-quarter distance in 2 minutes 2.66 seconds. [ 4 ] A two-dollar win wager returned $103.20, making Mine That Bird tied with Giacomo for the fourth-biggest upset winner in Kentucky Derby history, [ 4 ] behind 91-1 longshot Donerail in 1913, 80-1 victor Rich Strike in 2022, and 65-1 winner Country House in 2019. [ 9 ]
Lean on Pete is a 2017 British coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Andrew Haigh, based on the novel of the same name by Willy Vlautin.It stars Charlie Plummer, Chloë Sevigny, Travis Fimmel and Steve Buscemi, and follows a 15-year-old boy in the American Northwest, who begins to work at a stable and befriends a racehorse.
Gere lived in the six-bedroom, 11-bathroom abode with his wife and kids for two years after purchasing it in 2022 for $10.8 million, according to local outlet the New Canaan Advertiser.
At the age of 14, she obtained a weekend and school holiday job at Brooksby Grange horse racing yard. [1] Pitman left school two weeks before her 15th birthday, taking up a position as a stable girl at Brooksby Grange for a weekly wage of £3 4s 5d. Her first overnight stop was at Manchester where her filly, Star Princess, won the 1962 Diomedes ...