You won't see poetry in this blog very often, but when you have an award-winning poet who has put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) in tribute to a great horse, I can't resist. So with the permission of James Vasquez of Spokane, Wash., I give you... Rachel Alexandra A lass named Rachel, long and tall, That rarely suffered a defeat, She came to run though some had doubts With colts a filly...
