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2010 New Orleans Ladies (LS)

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Date/Track:
3/13/2010, Fair Grounds Race Course
Distance:
1 1/16 m (Dirt)
Age/Sex:
3+ F
Time:
1:43.55

What the Nation is saying about the 2010 New Orleans Ladies (LS)...

Jess Jackson's decision to pull Rachel Alexandra from the Apple Blossom at Oaklawn Park was neither a surprise nor an imprudent decision. The Rachel Alexandra who ran Saturday would not have stood a chance against Zenyatta. Even with $5 million up for grabs, it would have made no sense to send Rache...Read More
  • medlocke · I truly believe, and have since the very beginning when it was announced, that this whole Apple Blossom Invitational fiasco has been nothing but a complete "FARCE" by Jess Jackson from day one. I don't think he ever intended to have Rachel Alexandra at Oaklawn in April to race Zenyatta. What Jackson did do was role the dice. When that 5 million dollar offer came in from Oaklawn, he ask for an extra week for Rachel to "allegedly" train, never believing that Oaklawn would agree to his request. Then when they refused him, he would able to save face for both he and his "over-hyped" mare. But when Oaklawn officials and the Moss's agreed to the date change, right then and there Jackson had backed himself into a corner. A corner, mind you, he's been maneuvering to get out of for week's now. Even before Rachel's 2010 racing debut. So when Rachel came up short in the New Orleans Ladies, he had the out he so desperately wanted. It may not have been how he wanted it, but it was an out nevertheless. Jackson may be a pompous ass, but he's not stupid. He knows that Zenyatta is a beast on the track. And deep down, he knows that Zenyatta is simply "TOO MUCH MARE" for Rachel to hold off in the stretch once she unleashes that devastating closing drive that she possesses. Zenyatta is just too big and too physically strong for Rachel to withstand that closing onslaught. An onslaught that better foes than Rachel have tried and failed to overcome. TJMO. · 1188 days ago ·
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So, the “Race for the Ages” is off, and Jess Jackson says they now regret rushing Rachel Alexandra to make the New Orleans Ladies. When a horse doesn’t work for five months, it’s usually more than the weather that is to blame. It was obvious watching Rachel on Saturday that this was not the same fil...Read More
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  • bancona · Would someone please look at the times on past performances for Rachel? Even when she whooped a field, the times posted were much slower than those of Zardana (and Zenyatta) at the same distance. · 1188 days ago ·
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  • bancona · Would someone please look at the times on past performances for Rachel? Even when she whooped a field, the times posted were much slower than those of Zardana (and Zenyatta) at the same distance. · 1188 days ago ·
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Kate Hunter wins the prize for traveling the farthest to see Rachel Alexandra at Fair Grounds in New Orleans on Saturday, coming all the way from Tokyo, Japan. Actually, Hunter, a native of Nashville, Tenn., is an English teacher in Tokyo who was back home on a school break but ...Read More
They are only flesh and blood. As great as they are, they have similar imperfections as any of God’s creatures. “They” of course, are the greatest of Thoroughbred race horses, a phrase that certainly best describes Rachel Alexandra. Yesterday the world caught a glimpse of an imperfection...Read More
$200,000 New Orleans Ladies Fillies & mares, 4-year-olds and up, 1 1/16 miles, inaugural running Jockey David Flores (Zardana, winner): “We had a picture-perfect trip. The strategy was simply to get her to relax and John (Shirreffs, trainer) said she would get the job done. The pace was perfect...Read More
Reigning Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra got beat by John Shirreffs other filly Zardana in an absolute shocker in the New Orleans Ladies' Stakes.Read More
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  • amfuller · I don't think we will see RA at the AB. Even an 85% RA should have been what she was up against yesterday based on how she ran in 09. I think the best campaign won HOY in 09 not the best horse and now RA is paying for it. I am a Zenyatta fan, I just think what RA accomplished last year was great but she may never be the same horse again. I want RA and Z to match up when they feel RA is 100%. With Z yesterday, she go into traffic had to duck to the inside and still won going away and Mike never had to use the whip. Go Zenyatta! · 1191 days ago ·
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  • Arrrgy · If RA bounces back and can put in a 1 mi. work in 1:39 in two weeks, come back with a good 5F work, why not run in the AB? · 1191 days ago ·
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More than six months have passed since Calvin Borel last got that feeling -- whatever that feeling is a human being gets from sitting on the back of Rachel Alexandra during a horse race. If racing fans are itching to see Rachel, the 2009 Horse of the Year, make her first start since the Sept. 5 Wood...Read More
  • Arrrgy · Training, equipment change, Lack of works and lead switch problems say yes. If she was mine, she wouldn't run for another month. · 1193 days ago ·
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  • kmb · Absolutely agree with Arrrgy. Steve A. has been saying RA wasn't fit, but JJ made the final call. JJ almost killed RA last year, and he expects her to bounce back without proper training after what she was put through with the grueling campaign she successfully handled as a 3yr old!!! Poor Rachel.. · 1191 days ago ·
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It's sunny 64 degrees, with the Wind really blowing hard out of the north. Sustained 15-20 mph, with stonger gusts. Main track fast, turf good, with rail out 20 feet. Track played moderately in terms of time yesterday, and the same during morning work today. No biases on Friday's card. There's some ...Read More
Between 5:30 PM EST and 6:45 PM EST this afternoon there will be six meaningful stakes races across the country.  Of course, the highlights are Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra returning in the New Orleans Ladies at Fair Grounds and Zenyatta’s 2010 debut in the Santa Margarita at Santa Anita....Read More
Can Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra possibly lose in Saturday’s $200,000 New Orleans Ladies at Fair Grounds?   “No way,” said Donna Keen, wife of Fair Grounds-based trainer Dallas Keen on Friday morning during training hours. “She’s a diva!”   What happens if Rachel Alexandra goes on to...Read More
The days are being crossed off the calendar with careful precision. Hopeful fingers turn the page to peek at the month of April and more specifically at the circled date. Circled many times as to highlight the magnitude of what will happen on April 9, 2010. We are only four weeks from an affair...Read More
Based on her unprecedented success as a 3-year-old filly last year, Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra has been installed as the prohibitive 1-5 morning line choice when she faces four female rivals in Fair Grounds’ inaugural running of the $200,000 New Orleans Ladies this Saturday in the super fil...Read More
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  • Arrrgy · CS will jump up another notch and may be enough to beat a tiring RA. She needs a low tide and a super fast track to help. · 1193 days ago ·
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  • gardenesque1 · Clear Sailing is improving, versatile, 3 for 3 at FG, and she is capable of uncorking triple digit late pace figs. Has a fitness edge and will be finishing. That being said, any of Rachel's last 9 figs would get the job done. · 1193 days ago ·
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The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) announced Thursday that the organization's website, NTRA.com, will offer free, live video streaming this Saturday of the seasonal debuts of both 2009 Horse of the Year RACHEL ALEXANDRA (Medaglia d'Oro) and the undefeated two-time champion ZENYATTA ...Read More
  • horses · So what exactly is the point here? So, now, due to the NTRA's great efforts, anyone that is a racing fan that is not at a racetrack, OTB, watching on TVG/HRTV, or watching on any one of the numerous ADW's all of which offer free video... that those remaining 5 racing fans can watch it on NTRA.com??? · 1193 days ago ·
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  • Arrrgy · My friend in GB, WI is thrilled that she can now watch these races. Apt. won't let them have a dich. No OTB... · 1193 days ago ·
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If you can't get excited about racing this weekend, I don't know what to tell ya. Saturday is action-packed from coast to coast and I know I'll be glued to my computer with racing form in hand all all afternoon. Let's take a trip around the US and A, in the Space Shuttle to see what's in store....Read More
In a must-read for those following the story, the New York Times provides the latest from both camps, including some between-the-lines hesitation from the Rachel Alexandra camp, just one week before her intended debut at the Fair Grounds. The same afternoon will also feature the return of Zenyatta.Read More
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  • mid0827 · zen - That's great. Yes, Jess is chicken. Rachel is outstanding, but don't anyone kid yourselves that the Woodward wasn't 100% hand-picked for a crappy field on speed favoring track. She can't win using her style at 1 1/4 miles, that's completely out of the question. Are you dutching both races because they will be 1-5? · 1196 days ago ·
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  • Arrrgy · More red flags: “She came out at 6:20, turned and went the right way, then galloped about three-quarters of a mile,” said Fair Grounds clocker Billy Pettingill, who has observed Rachel Alexandra’s progression on a near-daily basis since the filly arrived at Fair Grounds in late November. “It was pretty easy. Then they picked her up with the pony and she was off the track at 6:28. They didn’t even gallop her a whole round, they just let her stretch her legs a little bit. They turned her loose about the three-eighths pole and she went from there, through the stretch, and back to about the five-eighths pole." This just doesn't sound as good as they say. There's a reason she didn't have a routine gallop. Clear Sailing looks to step up a few more. 8-1? · 1195 days ago ·
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As any handicapper knows by now, Daily Racing Form keeps detailed trainer statistics. First-time starters, claimers, blinkers on, so on and so forth. The shorthand for one category is +180 Days - that is, win percentage with horses returning from a layoff of a half-year or longer. Steve Asmussen bat...Read More
Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra returned to the track Wednesday morning for an easy gallop three days prior to her 4-year-old debut in Saturday’s $200,000 New Orleans Ladies. On Tuesday, the Medaglia d’Oro filly walked the shed row in trainer Steve Asmussen’s barn, the normal routine on the morni...Read More
Because of the length of each diary, the number of parts have been increased. Tentatively, Part 3 will cover March 10 thru March 22; Part 4 will encompass my trip to Dubai (March 23 to 29) and comments from people over there; and the final part will be covering the race live.Read More
The “buzz” concerning Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra’s rivals in Saturday’s $200,000 New Orleans Ladies mostly surrounds the Brazilian-bred mare Zardana.   That’s because she is conditioned by John Shirreffs, who also trains Zenyatta, Rachel Alexandra’s projected rival in Oaklawn Park’s Ap...Read More
Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra, with regular exercise rider Dominic Terry aboard, put in her final timed workout in advance of Saturday’s $200,000 New Orleans Ladies this morning, going four furlongs in :49, breezing, over the fast main track at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.   Fair ...Read More

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