Leaving their legacy
Meet six early Appaloosa racing mares who ran with the boys—and won.
Winning Colors, Genuine Risk, Ruffian—and now Rachel Alexandra—have made history running against and beating the boys in the most prestigious Thoroughbred races.
Thoroughbred fillies don’t often race against colts, but that’s not so with Appaloosas; fillies and mares didn’t have their own races in the early years of Appaloosa racing. If they ran at all, it was against the boys.
Those years produced some special racehorses—fillies and mares who set track records and won major stakes races running against many of the best stallions and geldings of the ’60s, ’70s, and early 1980s.
Full-text version printed in the July 2009 issue of Appaloosa Journal.
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