Borel could set Triple Crown record in Belmont

ntra.com ^ | 6/3/2009

[gate2wire]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Calvin Borel is in position to make racing history Saturday when he rides Mine That Bird in the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park. If Mine That Bird wins The Test of the Champion, Borel will become the first jockey to complete a personal sweep of the Triple Crown races in the same year on more than one horse.

Borel rode Mine That Bird to victory in the Kentucky Derby on May 2. Two weeks later he rode the filly Rachel Alexandra in her triumph in the Preakness. He is the second jockey to win the Derby and the Preakness on different horses in the same year. With Rachel Alexandra skipping the Belmont, Borel will ride Mine That Bird in the Belmont Stakes.

Allan Carter, historian at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, took a look through the charts of the Triple Crown races to find instances where jockeys changed horses during the series and won more than one race. Carter said the closest a jockey has come to winning all three Triple Crown races on more than one horse was in 1959 when Bill Shoemaker won the Derby on Tomy Lee, finished second in the Preakness on Sword Dancer and won the Belmont on Sword Dancer.

[gate2wire]

Pretty interesting article at the site.

[spectre]

Best of luck to Borel! We'll be watching for sure.

sw

[gate2wire]

I don’t really care for the horse, but I like Borel and think this would be a pretty neat accomplishment.

[jimfree]

Has anybody done the quadruple crown before? Remember Calvin won the Kentucky Oaks on Rachel Alexander the day before the Derby.

[gate2wire]

Good question. 7 have won the Oaks-Derby double. Haven’t heard any more than that.

[penowa]

Thanks for the article. Very interesting piece of TC history.

[nuconvert]

Thanks for your pings

[gate2wire]

You’re welcome. I thought it was pretty good. Things I’d never read before.

[gate2wire]

My pleasure.

[supremedoctrine]

If NO jocks have been aboard two or more winning horses in all three Triple Crown races, it would be obviously an impossiblity for any jock to do what Borel might do if he wins the Belmont: win 4 races (with the first one unofficially considered “the filly Derby”), and then all three Triple Crown races, TWO of them aboard the Derby and Belmont winner, and the other two aboard the Oaks and Preakness winner. THAT undoubtedly would NEVER be done again, for what it’s worth. If Borel accomplishes that , it will be The Year of the Borel, even in China.

[gate2wire]

True, but there have been 11 TC winners. The way I understand the question, it’s entirely possible that one of those years, one of those riders had ridden the Oaks winner. I think we would have heard about it, but there you go.

[supremedoctrine]

Anyone have superfecta payoff results? I hit it for half. but Equibase and DRF don’t have the 11th race posted yet.
I’d be surprised if it’s more than $300.

[ETL]

Race 11

Result Win Place Show
4 25.80 9.30 4.70
2 5.40 3.60
7 2.60

$2 Exacta 4-2 121.00
$2 Trifecta 4-2-7 295.00
$1 Trifecta 4-2-7 147.50
$2 Superfecta 4-2-7-6 852.00
$1 Superfecta 4-2-7-6 426.00
$2 Double 5/4 152.50
$2 Pick3 2/5/4 3 OF 3 2577.00
$2 Pick4 4/2/5/4 4 OF 4 17085.00
$2 Exacta 4-2 121.00
$2 Trifecta 4-2-7 295.00
$1 Trifecta 4-2-7 147.50
$2 Superfecta 4-2-7-6 852.00
$1 Superfecta 4-2-7-6 426.00
$2 Double 5/4 152.50
$2 Pick3 2/5/4 3 OF 3 2577.00
$2 Pick4 4/2/5/4 4 OF 4 17085.00
$2 Pick6 6/7/4/2/5/4 6 OF 6 969345.00
$2 Pick6 6/7/4/2/5/4 5 OF 6 2482.00

[ETL]

I’m curious, what made you decide on Summer Bird?

[ETL]

I had Summer Bird on top in a $10 exacta with Mine That Bird in today’s race. The second finisher (Dunkirk) was very nearly DQ’d. The exacta *would have* paid $54. That *would have* been $270 back for a $10 bet.

Remember this from Kentucky Derby day? ...

“Summer Bird is a powerful finisher. He has only 3 prior starts and so is really fresh for this race. Oh, did I mention he’s 50-1 on the program! The odds of course will change as the betting takes place. He’ll probably go down to about 20 or 30 to 1.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2242668/posts?page=23#23

[supremedoctrine]

FINALLY after more than an hour, equibase.com posted the Belmont Stakes results: I was delighted it paid that much, since finishers 2,3,and 4 were the only heavily bet horses in the race....so I win probably a little more than $400, but I can’t remember the NYRacing takeout.
And why Summer Bird? Well, going back to the Derby, I believe it was, our very own gate2wire brought him to my attention, and once I thought hard about his past performances, I was eager to include him in these superfectas. I put about $18 into $1 supers, with SBird on top in two of them and other one which exactly reversed
the order of finish 6-7-2-4.
But I’m happy.
Thank you , gate2 wire
And sorry ETL you didn’t have the exacta, which probably paid pretty nicely. But I am not about to get back on Equibase
to find out.
I thought the super full price might not be much more than the Tri. I was happily wrong/