A sad day for racing
Winning Colors, the spectacular filly who won the Kentucky Derby in 1988, was euthanized yesterday at the age of 23. She was a completely one-dimensional horse who had to have the lead, but she had ridiculous speed to burn. She took the lead early and kept it the whole way around, and there are few horses out there that could pull that off, never mind against the opposite, stronger gender. I remember thinking that D. Wayne Lukas was nuts with his prediction of how the race would play out, but he was pretty much exactly right. Truly memorable, and against …read more
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