...you know, this is the bad part. I did get to see my son yesterday, and I got to see my daughter today, but I got to see Eight Belles every day. She was our family, she's been with us for a year -- they a lot of great footage with Jeannine Edwards (of ESPN)...
...but also one which saw a pair of sophomores complete a Breedersâ Cup Classic exacta. And it was a class in which a filly, Eight Belles, made for the worst conceivable headlines, resulting in a federal inquiry, forcing an insular industry to take a hard look...
...of Barbaro still fresh, it was another somber day for horse racing on national TV. "Losing animals like this isn't fun," Eight Belles trainer Larry Jones said. "It's not supposed to happen. We're heartbroke." The sport also lost two horses who were dazzling...
...of Barbaro still fresh, it was another somber day for horse racing on national TV. "Losing animals like this isn't fun," Eight Belles trainer Larry Jones said. "It's not supposed to happen. We're heartbroke." The sport also lost two horses who were dazzling...
...replaced. Then the notion that runners were being held together by cocktails of steroids gained common currency after Eight Belles, this yearâs Kentucky Derby runner-up, sickeningly fractured both fore legs yards after the finish on US racingâs showcase day. Worse...
...this yearâs 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,...
...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...
...time we've had her," said the affable Jones, who suffered through the bittersweet Derby experience of seeing his filly, Eight Belles, run second to Big Brown before collapsing and having to be euthanized. "That's what I told Gabriel, do not let Music Note...
...Crown. I put the word "euthanizing" in quotes because "slaughter" is more apropos. Then this year's Derby second-finisher, Eight Belles, shattered her leg and was destroyed while a horrified live TV audience looked on. In Kentucky, the political muscle...