...that prevented him from making the Kentucky Derby. This year, Porter and Jones finished second in the Kentucky Derby with Eight Belles, a daughter of Unbridled's Song who suffered a fatal breakdown while galloping out after the race. "It'd be great to take...
...We wish just as ardently for something far simpler: that all of them get around the track safely. The deaths of Barbaro, Eight Belles, Pine Island and other horses from injuries incurred in Breeders' Cup and Triple Crown races have prompted a call for reform...
...replaced. Then the notion that runners were being held together by cocktails of steroids gained common currency after Eight Belles, this year’s Kentucky Derby runner-up, sickeningly fractured both fore legs yards after the finish on US racing’s showcase day. Worse...
...this year’s Kentucky Derby, the second-place finisher, Eight Belles, had to be euthanized after breaking both front ankles. In 2006, Barbaro, another Derby standout, was put down after suffering a leg injury at the Preakness Stakes. (Both horses were descendants...
...blamed for breakdowns among some of the most important horses in the sport's most recognized events - the Kentucky Derby (Eight Belles), the Preakness ( Barbaro) and the Breeders' Cup Classic (George Washington) - Curlin has remained strong. He is a proud,...
...Press, Jones said that before this fall's yearling sales he called several clients _ including Rick Porter, who owned Eight Belles _ and told them not to buy any horses with the intention of having him train them. Jones said he will continue to train the horses...
...to another form of grace: that of acceptance, as the men recollect the freak accident that led to the death of a great horse, Eight Belles. The idea of grace can only be illustrated so far without resort to its notional opposite, and thus Smith also incorporates...
...those that necessitated the amputation of Riley's leg. Nowhere has that fact been more apparent than at the racetrack, where Eight Belles, Barbaro and countless other thoroughbreds have been put down after breaking a leg. Riley now shows that horses' lives...
...commission also has passed a ban on some toe grabs on front shoes in the wake of the death of second-place Derby finisher Eight Belles, who broke both front ankles on the track and was euthanized. Task force chairman Tracy Farmer, a horse farm owner from Midway...
...Kentucky Derby finisher Eight Belles ashes were interred yesterday in an impromptu burial in the Kentucky Derby Museum garden. The filly was euthanized after breaking both front legs on the track after the May 3 race, and owner Rick Porter subsequently chose...