Jockey Calvin Borel, 40 years old, who won this year's Kentucky derby aboard Street Sense with fiancée Lisa before riding Street Sense to victory in the Jim Dandy Stakes on Sunday at Saratoga Racetrack. Earlier this year the Daily Race Form described Borel: "Calvin Borel never wanted anything more than to ride racehorses. Not play with the other kids. Not take up a sport. Not even go to school." This year he has attended a White House Gala where he met the Queen of England and the President and won the Kentucky Derby and the Jim Dandy. Born and raised in southern Louisiana he is nicknamed by some as "Bo-Rail" for his stretch drives down the rail on the inside of other horses. He will ride Street Sense again in the Travers Stakes August 25.
7/28/2007
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