( CNN ) -- Preakness Stakes favorite Rachel Alexandra lived up to her billing Saturday , thundering past an all-male field of competitors and becoming the first filly to win the Triple-Crown 's second jewel since 1924 . Saturday 's victory for Rachel Alexandra , who raced from the 13th and furthest stall , was the filly 's fifth straight win . `` She 's the greatest horse I 've ever been on in my life , '' jockey Calvin Borel said after the race . `` She did not handle the track 110 percent and still won . '' Long-shot Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird fell short in his improbable bid to compete for horse-racing 's Triple Crown , but showed his Derby victory was no fluke -- charging hard to finish second . Musket Man finished third . Rachel Alexandra 's win was historic for multiple reasons and capped a run of five straight victories that included a blowout of the field in the all-filly Kentucky Oaks . She became the first horse to win from the race 's 13th stall -- the furthest from the inside of the track . Borel became the first jockey to ride a winner in the Kentucky Derby -- he steered 50-1 underdog Mine That Bird to the win -- and then choose to ride another horse in the Preakness . Watch why Preakness was viewed as battle of sexes » . She ran at the front of the mile-and-one-sixteenth race for almost the entire time . Mike Smith , Mine That Bird 's jockey on Saturday , said Borel gave him advice on how to run the undersized champion on Saturday . The two chatted after a finish in which less than a single horse-length separated the two . `` I said if I 'd had that rail trip , it might have been a different outcome , '' said Smith , who 'd hoped to take Mine That Bird to the inside of the track just as Borel did in the May 2 Derby . `` They knew I was going to do it so everybody was just sticking on it . ''
Rachel Alexandra is first filly to win the Triple-Crown 's second jewel since 1924 . `` She 's the greatest horse I 've ever been on in my life , '' jockey Calvin Borel said . TL;DR The Kentucky Derby winner will be ridden by trainer Todd Pletcher for her next start at Churchill Downs.