Calvin Borel off Mine That Bird ride for Woodward Stakes

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This will probably be a week that Calvin Borel will prefer to forget.

First Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver was a dismal 10th of 11, beaten 24 lengths, in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga on Saturday. Twenty-four hours later Borel rode the same 10 furlongs in the Personal Ensign Stakes and for eight of them looked as though he might win on crowd favourite Rachel Alexandra.

Then the final furlong became a 13-second torture as Rachel Alexandra’s stride began to crumble and Persistently nailed her in the final strides. If Borel thought that he had hit rock bottom with defeats on two of his Triple Crown winners then he was sadly mistaken. The light he could see at the end of the tunnel was simply the headlights of a juggernaut of disappointment that was heading his way.

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