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Old 09-09-2009, 12:08 PM   #35
Tim Y
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Originally Posted by reckless View Post
hi Tim:

Yes, those damnned breakdowns...

Mr. Nickerson, who was favored in the Sprint... later, one of the greatest fillies of all time Go For Wand in the Distaff.

They give all they have for us, these great athletes. To say we take them for granted may be the understatement of all time.
Shaker Knit went down falling over the aortic aneurysm explosion (from intimal erosion from too much bute) and had to be euthanized with a significant back injury later that day.

Then years later at Belmont, Exogenous flipped, hit her head hard on the ground (which the moron director played at least 5 times) and was euthanized later.
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