From Bloodhorse/Haskins
I will save AWESOME for this:
Fantasy Stakes – Biggest margin in the history of the race (8 ¾ lengths).
Kentucky Oaks – Biggest margin in the history of the race (20 ¼ lengths).
Preakness – First filly to win the Preakness in 85 years and the first horse in history to win from post 13.
Mother Goose – Biggest margin in the history of the race (19 ¼ lengths), previously held by Ruffian, and ran the fastest time in the history of the race (1:46 1/5).
Haskell – To repeat, second-biggest margin in the history of the race (six lengths), and second-fastest time (1:47 1/5) in the history of the race by one fifth of a second, and two fifths of a second off the track record set by Spend a Buck 24 years earlier.
Woodward – First filly in history to win the Woodward, and ran the fastest time since the race was moved to Saratoga.
Even winning the Woodward by a head and the Preakness by one length, Rachel’s average margin of victory in 2009 was an astounding 8 ¼ lengths.
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