Dolph Morrison bred Rachel Alexandra but was so unimpressed in the early stages of her development that he twice contemplated selling her.
Tag: Legends
Before the Legend: Remembering Secretariat’s Magical 1973 Season
Live long enough, and you may see a legend form before your eyes. Deserving immortality, yet also simplified from the reality you knew.
Underappreciated Stars of the 1920s: Reigh Count, Sarazen, and Princess Doreen
By the 1920s, horse racing was rebounding from the trying circumstances of the previous two decades, where the sport has contracted from more than 300 racetracks prior to 1900 to only 25 by the end of the 1910s.
Secretariat, the Preakness, and a 39-Year Controversy
Maximum Security’s disqualification in the 2019 Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve inspired much controversy, and the debate at times felt like the 1950 Kurosawa film “Rashomon,” where multiple witnesses to an event retell it in vastly different ways. All of us saw the same race, yet so many people have different interpretations of what they saw.
