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Died. Ruffian, 3, one of the fleetest, most beautiful fillies in racing history; by an injection of phenobarbital after injuries suffered during a $350,000 match race at New York's Belmont Park race track (see SPORT...
...began as the race of the year when the two horses broke from the starting gate at New York's Belmont Park for the much-ballyhooed mile-and-a-quarter match race. The contest between the record-breaking three-year-old filly Ruffian, winner in all ten of her starts and holder of the filly's Triple Crown for 1975, and the Kentucky Derby-winning colt Foolish Pleasure was a perfect Him v. Her extravaganza for the 50,764 people at Belmont and for millions watching on CBS, which put up $350,000 to televise the event. Then...
...been able to wait a day or so prior to surgery simply because the filly's condition was anything but stable." But most believed that the contamination in Ruffian's dirt-filled wound required an immediate operation. Once Ruffian was trucked to the equine hospital behind the Belmont track, Dr. Reed removed bone chips, repaired some of the ripped ligaments, flushed the wound with antibiotics and saline solutions and inserted drains. Then Dr. Edward C. Keefer, an orthopedist, put on a cast and special shoe...
...technique. At 'week's end Jack Dreyfus, chairman of the board of the New York racing association, said, "The inadequacy of knowing what to do was the problem. It happened to strike an area of incompetence in the whole industry." Meantime, Ruffian had been buried quietly at Belmont, mourned by millions who knew little of racing but were moved by the untimely death of a great horse...
...could convince him I was a hit man working for a large olive oil concern out of Newark. Maybe I could claim to be making book on the upcoming Belmont Stakes. I don't remember what I said. I quickly exceed myself and beclined...