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2010 Personal Ensign Stakes (G1)

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Date/Track:
8/29/2010, Saratoga Race Course
Distance:
1 1/4 m (Dirt)
Age/Sex:
3+ F
Time:
2:04.49

What the Nation is saying about the 2010 Personal Ensign Stakes (G1)...

Rachel Alexandra ran her last race,.......Read More
Nearly one year ago at Saratoga Race Course, Rachel Alexandra thrilled 31,171 spectators when she held on by a head to win the Grade 1 Woodward and become the first filly or mare to win the race in 56 renewals.   On Sunday the reigning Horse of the Year will try to accomplish a personal first –...Read More
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  • zenyatta02 · Ha! And now RA is probable to run in the BC Ladies Classic, one because she isn't good enough for the Classic and two because her connections are afraid of Zen. Your proof right there! · 1016 days ago ·
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  • gardenesque1 · '09 Horse of the Year had nothing to do with Rachel being better than Zenyatta. Rachel deserved the award because she had the best overall campaign. In reality, Zenyatta is superior to Rachel...especially in 2010. Jess Jackson realized that he had no shot against Zenyatta in the Apple Blossom after Rachel lost her 2010 opener to inferior competition, and the reigning HOY is still struggling to rediscover her '09 brilliance. Zen just keeps on winning. · 1016 days ago ·
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From a trip-handicapper’s standpoint, Sunday’s Grade 1 Personal Ensign Stakes was a textbook play for an upset. You had all the right ingredients: Rachel Alexandra, a heavy favorite being asked to do something she’d never done before, carry her speed a mile and a quarter; a “now” horse ...Read More
Persistently waited patiently behind a speed duel and made an inexorable rally in the stretch to upset Rachel Alexandra by a length on Sunday at Saratoga Race Course in the 63rd running of the Grade 1, $300,000 Personal Ensign for fillies and mares.Read More
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  • arazi · Ally - you mean Hal Wiggins... was the previous trainer of Rachel. But yes, they are both awesome. · 1024 days ago ·
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  • humphrey · It wasn't a matter of which horse beat her. she has never been the same losing late three separate times while Borel punishes her un-necessarily · 1024 days ago ·
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It’s time boys and girls. It’s time to open your eyes and see what is in front of you. Rachel Alexandra is ready, are you? To those who said she could not get the distance. Today is the day. In today’s Personal Ensign...Read More
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  • arazi · Looking back, I think we should all be able to appreciate her for what she is. Rachel is a world-class miler. She has tons of speed and can rate for a bit. She's probably most effective at a one turn 1 1/16 mile race at Belmont. In 2009, she showed she could demolish weaker competition at 9 furlongs. When she was at her peak, she could beat modest stakes horses at 9 furlongs. She could even do it under adverse pace conditions, but always over speed-friendly tracks like Monmouth or Saratoga. Today she was seriously challenged in the first half mile of a 10 furlong race. She did great to hold on the way she did. · 1025 days ago ·
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  • arazi · Another way to look at it. If you compare the fractions of the Travers and Personal Ensign... Rachel ran the same race First Dude did... she would have run third in the Travers as well. I don't think she's slipped that much. I think she would have run third in last year's Travers, too. · 1025 days ago ·
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Can Super Saver pull a Derby-Travers double? Is Rachel a lock to win the Personal Ensign? Will Richard's Kid repeat in the Pacific Classic? Read More
Forgive the face of horse racing if it sports a look of concern at any point this weekend. Calvin Borel has a lot riding on Saturday's Travers Stakes and Sunday's Personal Ensign Handicap, both at historic Saratoga. It's not often you pilot a Kentucky Derby winner and a filly for the ages in a 24-ho...Read More
Making her final workout before Sunday’s Grade 1, $300,000 Personal Ensign, Rachel Alexandra breezed four furlongs on the Oklahoma Training Track this morning. With Shaun Bridgmohan aboard, the reigning Horse of the Year maintained a steady pace throughout the move, running the first quarter mile in...Read More
  • humphrey · walking on the fringes of her distance ability here. Good luck as she may need it here but cannot state that one way or the other without past perfromances. · 1030 days ago ·
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  • Medlocke · Anyone who watched Rachel Alexandra's 2009 campaign. Then compares it to her 2010 campaign that she's raced thus far. Should be able to clearly tell that Rachel Alexandra is clearly not the same filly in 2010 that she was in 2009. The Personal Ensign is going to be quite a challenge for Rachel on two fronts. #1-It will be her first lifetime attempt at running 10 furlongs. #2-There's two very strong challengers in the Personal Ensign that have raced, and raced well, and even won against G1 and G2 company at 10 furlongs. Life at Ten has won 6 straight races. Her last win, a G2 win over 10 furlongs. She's 9-6-2-0 lifetime. Milwaukee Appeal is also a very tough filly to beat. Having raced 10 furlongs more than once against G1 and G2 company in her career. She's had 2nd and 3rd place finishes, more than once in her career. So if Rachel struggles with the distance at all? Both Life at Ten, especially off of 6 straight wins, and Milwaukee Appeal both have more than realistic chance of defeating Rachel Alexandra in the Personal Ensign. JMO. · 1030 days ago ·
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Life At Ten could be a problem for Rachel Alexandra in this race. As could Miwaukee Appeal. I think Milwaukee Appeal will prove to be the biggest danger of all to Rachel Alexandra in the Personal Ensing. She's raced, and raced well against G1 company at the 1-1/4 distance before. Life at Ten has raced and won over 1-1/4 against G2 company. So both Life at Ten and Milwaukee Appeal have the advantage of already having raced multiple times at 10 furlongs. Rachel better hope she brings her "A" game to this dance. Because if she's clearly not been the same filly in 2010 that we saw in 2009. If 10 furlongs proves to be more than what Rachel Alexandra can handle. She'll be beaten by either Milwaukee Appeal or Life at Ten in the Personal Ensign. JMO.
On Saturday, August 28, The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) will offer a special Double linking the Travers to the following day’s Personal Ensign, in addition to a $1 Million All-Graded Stakes Late Pick 4 on Travers Day.   The 141st running of the Grade 1 Travers, scheduled as the 12...Read More
With Barbara Banke, wife of co-owner Jess Jackson, looking on from Saratoga Race Course’s historic grandstand, reigning Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra turned in a strong six-furlong move over the main track this morning in preparation for the Grade 1, $300,000 Personal Ensign on August 29.  ...Read More
Life At Ten, whose six-race win streak will be put on the line against reigning Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra in the Grade 1 Personal Ensign on August 29, came out of Tuesday’s work in good order, said trainer Todd Pletcher.   The winner of the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps worked a half-mile in a...Read More
With jockey Shaun Bridgmohan in the irons, reigning Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra continued preparations for the Grade 1, $300,000 Personal Ensign at Saratoga Race Course, breezing a strong six furlongs in 1:12.96 shortly after 6 a.m. Monday morning over the Oklahoma training track.   “I ...Read More
There's no point in arguing that Zenyatta should have come to Saratoga to meet Rachel Alexandra in the Personal Ensign and give everyone the race they are dying to see. It was never going to happen. You could put a gun to Jerry Moss's head and he still wouldn't take his mare out of California any ti...Read More
Super Saver – the Kentucky Derby winner who finished fourth in yesterday’s Grade 1 Haskell Invitational, missing third by just a nose – will make his next appearance in the 141st running of the Grade 1, $1 million Travers at Saratoga .   “I thought it was a pretty good performance, but he did g...Read More
With dozens of onlookers lining the rail at the Oklahoma training track, reigning Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra turned in  a solid work this morning as she prepares for the Grade 1 Personal Ensign Stakes on August 29.   Playfully bucking after stepping onto the track shortly before 6...Read More
Reigning Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra will return to the scene of one of her most scintillating triumphs when she makes her next start in the Grade 1 Personal Ensign Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on Sunday, August 29, owner Jess Jackson said Friday.   Having capped her championship seaso...Read More
The horse racing gods are still hoping and wishing for a meeting between unbeaten Zenyatta and last year's Horse of the Year, Rachel Alexandra. The New York Daily News has begun speculating that the two could face off on Aug. 29 in the Personal Ensign Stakes at 1 1/4 miles at Saratoga... Read More
Reigning Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra returned to her home base at Saratoga Race Course just before 9 a.m. Sunday, and trainer Steve Asmussen said that he and owner Jess Jackson would sit down and discuss what’s next for the 4-year-old filly after she returns to training.   One attractiv...Read More

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