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Article: EAGER TO RUN AGAINST RACHEL.(Sports)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2009
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SARATOGA SPRINGS -- As Dallas Stewart watched his big gray colt gallop at Churchill Downs last Thursday, a thought completely foreign to most horsemen entered his mind.
We should run against Rachel Alexandra.
It wasn't the original plan for Macho Again, a 4-year-old son of Macho Uno owned by a syndicate of 17 partners through West Point Thoroughbreds. After finishing second to longshot Bullsbay in the Aug. 8 Whitney Handicap, the colt shipped back to Stewart's base in Kentucky and was supposed to rest up there for a fall campaign in the Jockey Club Gold Cup.
But once he zipped through an Aug. 27 five-furlong breeze in 1:01 at the Louisville ...