NEW YORK -- The rematch replaces the Triple Crown try in the Belmont Stakes. For the first time in four years, and for just the third time in nine years, no horse will attempt to sweep the Kentucky ...
STANTON, Del. -- Jeremy Rose had one unprintable word pop into his mind aboard Afleet Alex when the horse was on the verge of crumpling to the dirt after his frightening collision with Scrappy T in ...
With tragedy averted - such stumbles have led to the deaths of horses and jockeys being trampled - Afleet Alex pulled clear for a sweet victory. It was the fifth straight year the Preakness favorite ...
Twenty years later, Afleet Alex’s victory remains one of the most memorable in the storied history of the Preakness Stakes (G1). But not for his margin of victory of 4 ¾ lengths. Or his time of ...
Nobody would have thought any of this was possible when Afleet Alex was a baby. With his mother unable to nurse her foal, Silvertand's daughter fed the horse out of a Coors Lite bottle with a nipple ...
Afleet Alex won’t run in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, after all. Trainer Tim Ritchey and veterinarian Patricia Hogan said yesterday that the Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner’s leg injury is not fully ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Afleet Alex's gritty recovery to win the Preakness after nearly crumpling to the dirt was a dazzling highlight in the colt's career. The frightening collision also may have played ...
Afleet Alex, who loves to run just off the lead, was 10th in the early going. The bay colt who weighs "just under 1,000 pounds," according to Ritchey, moved into contention on the final turn. And just ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Afleet Alex is running for more than glory in the Kentucky Derby. The big bay colt is running to beat cancer, too. When the starting gate springs open Saturday for the Derby, Afleet ...
For months, Jeremy Rose has been a marked man within the riding profession. Almost every top jockey, and every top jockey's agent, wanted to take his job as the rider of Afleet Alex, one of the nation ...