Rachel Alexandra installed as the 4/5 ml favorite for the Haskell
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from the Louisville Courier-Journal:
Preakness winner Rachel Alexandra, seeking to beat the boys for the second time this year, drew post No. 6 for Sunday's Grade I $1.25 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in New Jersey.
Rachel Alexandra was made the 4-5 favorite in a field of seven 3-year-olds. Belmont winner Summer Bird drew the No. 2 post and is the third choice at 7-2.
The second choice at 3-1 is Munnings, who won the 7-furlong Woody Stephens race on the Belmont undercard.
The field marks the first time since 1987 that the Haskell has landed two Triple Crown race winners.
Asked if he thought Summer Bird could beat Rachel Alexandra, trainer Tim Ice said, I think we'll give her a run for her money. I'm not making predictions. Calvin found out about that.
In the Belmont Stakes, jockey Calvin Borel predicted that Derby winner Mine That Bird would win, only to finish third.
He will ride Rachel Alexandra on Sunday as she seeks her fourth straight Grade I victory. She won the Kentucky Oaks by 20 ¼ lengths, became the first filly in 85 years to win the Preakness and captured Belmont's Mother Goose in stakes-record time.
Haskell Invitational
Post time 6:14 p.m. Sunday at Monmouth Park, Oceanport, N.J.
Purse: $1.25 million
Distance 1 1/8 miles
Television: TVG
Duke of Mischief * Coa/Fawkes * 15-1
Summer Bird * Desormeaux/Ice * 7-2
Papa Clem * Trujillo/G. Stute * 12-1
Munnings * Velazquez/Pletcher * 3-1
Atomic Rain * Bravo/bin Suroor * 10-1
Rachel Alexandra * Borel/Asmussen * 4-5
Bunker Hill * Carmouche/Ryan * 30-1
Preakness winner Rachel Alexandra, seeking to beat the boys for the second time this year, drew post No. 6 for Sunday's Grade I $1.25 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in New Jersey.
Rachel Alexandra was made the 4-5 favorite in a field of seven 3-year-olds. Belmont winner Summer Bird drew the No. 2 post and is the third choice at 7-2.
The second choice at 3-1 is Munnings, who won the 7-furlong Woody Stephens race on the Belmont undercard.
The field marks the first time since 1987 that the Haskell has landed two Triple Crown race winners.
Asked if he thought Summer Bird could beat Rachel Alexandra, trainer Tim Ice said, I think we'll give her a run for her money. I'm not making predictions. Calvin found out about that.
In the Belmont Stakes, jockey Calvin Borel predicted that Derby winner Mine That Bird would win, only to finish third.
He will ride Rachel Alexandra on Sunday as she seeks her fourth straight Grade I victory. She won the Kentucky Oaks by 20 ¼ lengths, became the first filly in 85 years to win the Preakness and captured Belmont's Mother Goose in stakes-record time.
Haskell Invitational
Post time 6:14 p.m. Sunday at Monmouth Park, Oceanport, N.J.
Purse: $1.25 million
Distance 1 1/8 miles
Television: TVG
Duke of Mischief * Coa/Fawkes * 15-1
Summer Bird * Desormeaux/Ice * 7-2
Papa Clem * Trujillo/G. Stute * 12-1
Munnings * Velazquez/Pletcher * 3-1
Atomic Rain * Bravo/bin Suroor * 10-1
Rachel Alexandra * Borel/Asmussen * 4-5
Bunker Hill * Carmouche/Ryan * 30-1
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