Congratulations to Rachel Alexandra on her courageous winning performance in the Preakness. It's a testament to her class that, despite struggling with the Pimlico surface, she persevered to become the first filly in 85 years to win the Preakness. And also, kudos to Mine That Bird, who proved the Derby was no fluke, again rallying from last place in another zip code with a scintillating stretch run that came up just a length short. But this diary is the story of another filly from another time and another place whose claim to fame is that she was the greatest filly, and for many the greatest racehorse, to ever look through a bridle. Her record puts to shame the records of Secretariat and Man o' War. It's another horse story that would not be believed if it were not true. It's as much fairy tale as reality, part Cinderella, part Ugly Duckling, and part Secretariat. It's the story of a horse that was the toast of five nations. If you haven't heard of her and you're wondering why, it's possibly because, as Zoltan Karpathy said in My Fair Lady, she's Hungarian.
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