If this is “girl power”….
Most of us love an underdog, and I loved our family’s female dog growing up, so why not root for a female horse, which is like a dog, but bigger?
The headline of the Beth Harris article screamed out “Girl Power.” http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/sports/45234457.html The topic, filly Rachel Alexander’s vistory in the Preakness.
But wasn’t it speed, not power? Why let facts get in the way of using an adjective to describe that favorite obsession of women.
And is a win by a filly for the first time in 85 years evidence of power. I don’t recall seeing a headline “Washington Generals Power” the last time they beat the Globetrotters.
Meanwhile, her jockey, Calvin Borel, is a guy – a guy good enough to have ridden a 50-1 longshot guy horse to victory in the Kentucky Derby a few weeks before. Put Rachel Alexander on the track without a jockey and I’ll believe the jockey had nothing to do with her performance – there’s a reason they weigh horses down for the race with the load of human being.
Borel is 5’3″ tall, and weighs 110 pounds, small even for a chick. Obviously, incredibly few guys are small enough to be jockeys, and yet only 10% of jockeys in North America are female http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/sports/othersports/17seconds.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
If that’s girl power….
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