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From Citra To The Kentucky Derby
Gail Rice helped pull Medina Spirit into this world, so you had better believe she was in the stands screaming when he won the Kentucky Derby, celebrating a horse she says God blessed from the day he was born. Share Updated: 7:15 PM EDT May 12, 2021 SOURCE: Provided
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From Citra To The Kentucky Derby
Gail Rice helped pull Medina Spirit into this world, so you had better believe she was in the stands screaming when he won the Kentucky Derby, celebrating a horse she says God blessed from the day he was born.
May 12, 2021
ANTHONY, Fla. Medina Spirit has been entered to run in the Preakness on Saturday, so Gail Rice is going to Baltimore. She has a plane ticket and a ticket to the race, with details still to be ironed out regarding a rental car and hotel. “And I have to buy a dress,” she says with one of her frequent laughs.
Rice helped bring Medina Spirit into this world literally pulling his forelegs out of his mother, Mongolian Changa, at a postage stamp of a farm here on April 5, 2018. She drove into the yard there isn’t much of a driveway that afternoon and saw that it was high time for a baby. So she grabbed her daughter-in-law, Emily, to assist.
The horse failed a drug test following the Kentucky Derby, calling his win into question. Author: Beau Zimmer Updated: 9:51 PM EDT May 10, 2021
OCALA, Fla. Like a proud mama, Gail Rice follows all of her homegrown horses. I don’t miss a race, said Rice at her small horse farm north of Ocala near where last week’s Kentucky Derby winner was born.
She raised the colt for the first year of his life so of course had to travel to Churchill Downs when he qualified for the Kentucky Derby.
“That’s bigger than your child graduating from Harvard,” Rice screamed with excitement.