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Rachel still the top 3-year-old

By Paul Moran
Special to ESPN.com

Saturday, August 29, 2009

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- While Summer Bird added the 140th Travers to a resume that already listed the Belmont Stakes among his credits on Saturday, Rachel Alexandra rested nearby, perhaps a half-mile on the other side of Union Avenue, in the Saratoga stall that has been her summer home. Without her lifting a hoof while seven 3-year-old males who answered the bell for the Travers splashed through 10 furlongs, most slowly, the chasm that separates the nation's leading 3-year-old filly and its b ...

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