Afleet Alex - Could His Triple Crown Be Redeemed?

By Author: Lee Lane-Edgar
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Kentucky Derby had witnessed him close a third place finish just two weeks back. With his tempestuous running style, Afleet Alex stayed right where he was meant to be, with his fans blazing through the field with all that he had, for that one victory that kept him from winning in his last race. Alex won the Grade 1 tournament with a 4 ¾ length victory over a distance of 1 3/16th mile; this was his comeback in the Triple Crowns.

After what looked like an inevitable mishap in the midst of that raging momentum, Alex almost plummeted down after jolting with the race lead Scrappy T. only to find his feet the very next moment also saving his jockey Jeremy Rose from a very terrifying head first fall. Alex sprung right back to his feet after ‘clipping heels’ with the then race front runner also heading for that final thrust of speed eventually winning the race with a substantial leading difference.

Afleet Alex’s Belmont win was termed as a ‘locomotive’ like powerful charge through the field of some very well-matched contenders. Alex’s victory run in the third leg of the Triple Crowns made him the eleventh ...
... only runner to have made it through the Preakness and Belmont legs of the world’s most famous horse racing event.

However his fall early during the season developed hideously in his left font cannon legs as a hairline fracture. Even as he prepared for the Breeder’s Cup, his owner Cash is King Stable shelved him for a year which also followed into further complications due to avascular necrosis developing in his legs post his unfortunate fall during the top of the stretch run in the Preakness.

Afleet Alex derived owed his locomotive grinding racing pattern to some of the best and most influential runners in the business. Having a pedigree rich and affluent as the indispensible Mr. Prospector and Northern Dancer, Raise A Native, coming down to the Hawkster mare Maggy Hawk, Afleet Alex was the perfect recipe for another Triple Crown champion.

Afleet’s progeny Alex’s other major wins include the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes as a 2 year old and Grade 2 Sanford Stakes, he followed with 2 second place finishes in the Breeder’s Cup Juvenile and Grade 1 Champagne Stakes. His Grade 2 major comeback as a 3 year old was under jockey Jeremy Rose with Arkansas Derby, a powerful win by 8 lengths. However the comeback suffered a slight setback with his Derby loss, which of course wasn’t more than a length anyway.

Alex retired with 8 wins out of 12 starts, two second place finishes and one third. The Eclipse Award winner for 2005 Champion Three Year Old Colt retired in the December that year. He now stands at Gainesway Farm in Lexington after having lived a meritorious racing career.

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