Rachel V Zenyatta could happen !

Rachel was covered by Curlin Monday morning ,probably happened before but must be rare that 2 winners of Horse of the year meet this way?

Interesting match race for the future against the foal from Sea the Stars and Zarkava

What about Bernardini and Zenyatta foal?

Leading US owner Jess Jackson dies aged 81

USA: Leading US racehorse owner Jess Jackson, best known for the exploits of Curlin and Rachel Alexandra, has died in California after complications from cancer. He was 81.

A wine merchant by profession, Jackson is revered in the world of viticulture as the entrepreneur who popularised Chardonnay with his Kendall-Jackson vinery.

However, in recent years he was just as recognisable a figure on American racetracks, where his famous gold-and-burgundy silks have been carried with distinction by horses running under his Stonestreet Stables banner. Stonestreet was Jackson's middle name.

Jackson, whose death was announced on the Kendall-Jackson website, first owned racehorses back in the 1960s before upping his interest significantly in 2003.

A noted spender at bloodstock sales, he spent almost $22 million alone at Keeneland's November Sale in 2004, according to the Daily Racing Form.

Although Jacksondeveloped his own breeding operation in recent years, his biggest successes came from horses he bought out of other stables in partnership with others. Both Curlin and Rachel Alexandra came via this route before monopolising the American Horse of the Year award between them for three years from 2007-09.

Curlin, for example, was originally trained by Helen Pitts before being purchased by a partnership featuring Jackson as majority stakeholder after winning his debut by more than 12 lengths at Gulfstream Park in 2007.

Transferred to Jackson's principal trainer Steve Asmussen, the son of Smart Strike went on to finish third in the Kentucky Derby before a string of major victories.

These included the Preakness Stakes, Jockey Club Gold Cup and Breeders' Cup Classic in 2007, and then the Dubai World Cup the following season, when he also won the Stephen Foster and a second Jockey Club.

The following season, the most prestigious accolade in US racing went to that brilliant filly Rachel Alexandra, who also carried Stonestreet colours for the majority of her championship season, Jackson and a partner having bought her after she won the Kentucky Oaks by 20-plus lengths for original trainer Hal Wiggins.

The filly who became known as ‘America's sweetheart' was also switched to Asmussen, for whom she went on to beat male horses in the Preakness and two more Grade 1s, the Haskell and the Whitney, during a perfect season of eight unbeaten starts.

Jackson had become more active in the breeding side of the business in recent years, buying the former Buckram Oak Farm near Lexington as the Kentucky headquarters of his empire in 2005.

Stonestreet Farm, as it is now known, is the home of Rachel Alexandra, who is in foal to Curlin. Having bought out his former partners, Jackson stood the stallion at Lane's End.

Jackson is survived by his wife, Barbara Banke,and five children.

Rachel had a wee boy

hibernia Wrote:

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> Rachel had a wee boy


Bob, she is only due in February but they confirmed that her initial sonograms have revealed that she will be having a colt!!!

Sure he will attract plenty of attention at the sales!

I'm a bit premature :)o

That's what your girlfriend told me ......................lol

Who calls their kid STONESTREET jackson?