Rizeena (Ire)

By Andrew Caulfield

The saying that fortune favors the bold (or the brave) apparently dates back to the second century B.C., but it could have been coined especially for veteran English trainer Clive Brittain. It was Brittain, you may recall, who sent the outstanding filly Pebbles to Aqueduct in 1985 to defeat Strawberry Road in the second running of the Breeders’ Cup Turf. Encouraged by that triumph, Brittain sent Bold Arrangement to Churchill Downs the