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tags: Belmont Stakes, horse racing, race horses, Summer Bird, Mine That Bird, sports, streaming video From left, Summer Bird, ridden by Kent Desormeaux, Mine That Bird, ridden by Calvin Borel, and Dunkirk ridden by John R. Velazquez, race toward the finish line in the 2009 Belmont Stakes. Image: Kathy Willens. Kent Desormeaux, the other Cajun jockey in the Belmont Stakes, rode the other son of Birdstone, Summer Bird, to victory in today's Belmont Stakes. (Birdstone was the upset winner of the 2004 Belmont Stakes). Summer Bird is a half brother to today's favorite, Kentucky Derby winner,…
tags: Kentucky Oaks, horse racing, Rachel Alexandra, streaming video This is the video of yesterday's Grade-I Kentucky Oaks, a major race that is limited to fillies and is the "companion" race to today's Kentucky Derby. After watching the astonishingly talented filly, Rachel Alexandra, run away with this race, I think the colts running in today's Derby are very lucky she isn't in the Derby with them [2:33] Here she is, back at the barn after winning the race [0:50] And this video provides a wonderful look at her action while training on the track; long, smooth strides [3:29] Does she…
tags: Barbaro, horse racing, thoroughbreds, horses, leg injuries, churchill downs Goodbye Barbaro, thanks for the memories. Image source. Roy and Gretchen Jackson, the owners of the gallant racehorse, Barbaro, who was euthanized one year ago today, have decided to inter his cremains at Churchill Downs in Kentucky, where he won the Kentucky Derby in May 2006. Barbaro, who shattered his right hind leg during the running of the Preakness Stakes in late May 2006, battled eight months for his life in a Pennsylvania veterinary hospital. The bay colored colt was eventually euthanized after…