They'll team up again in the Preakness, with Krigger trying to become the first black rider to win since Willie Simms in 1898.

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George Anderson was the first black rider to win in 1889.

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In 1990, he wrote the music and lyrics for "The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets, " a theatrical collaboration with the American writer William Burroughs based on a German folktale.

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Facing one of her toughest-ever fields, including her old foe Hay List, admittedly not the force he once was, and the in-form Bel Sprinter, Black Caviar's regular rider Luke Nolen had to jockey for position in the early stages as he sought to overcome an unfavorable inside draw.

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