What’s so remarkable is that he is that his run is composed of races with 20-horse fields. Just getting one of them is a feat.
Yes.
Check out post # 5 .......... he's always racing.
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And make no mistake, the races are where Calvin Borel wants to be.
"Just another day," he said before starting Wednesday's race card. "That's how I got here. You can't forget them people. I never forget where I come from. "I'm gonna ride him [Slews Mountain Gal] just as hard as I rode Street Sense."
A hard ride didn't make much difference with that mount. Or with Bobby Jack, a third-place finisher in the third race.
But the man nicknamed "Bo-rail" for his steely ability to urge horses through on the rail picked up wins in his next two races -- both times charging through on the inside down the stretch. He booted home Pennypinchinpete by a nose in the fourth race and won in the seventh aboard Vicarian with a ride that was so inside that the horse actually hit the rail with a sixteenth of a mile to go.
Even after finishing up the track on his final mount, Espoof, Borel walked off the track the way he always does. Smiling.
"Awesome day," he chirped. "Can't complain."
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