Ruffian (In Memory)

In Memory of the great filly Ruffian. Song is the The Worlds Greatest by R. Kelly. Please excuse the misspelled words!!

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• Ruffian
• horse
• filly
• race
• tribute

[Billishotheismine]

Poor Ruffian... she was great... and HUGE too.

[MeredithFanLovesNugi]

yeah... after her dead they made it safer... they changed so much... but for her it was still too late...

No horse ever was as good a she was and noone will ever be :(

[3170mulgraveforlife]

im not crying, there's just...... something in my eye ;(

[diangofango]

@Writeowl It will be, over time. I'm trying to by a 650 HP engine...

But I'm not sure yet, if the owner wants to sell.

[0Twintig]

@Writeowl

Sorry I know she did, I forgot to write that,

yes she did hit her shoulder, but still hand Soft Bones. All young horses her age do not

have very strong bones.

[Writeowl]

@SeeYaOnSondee Read "Ruffian: Burning From the Start". It explains clearly what happened.

[Writeowl]

@SeeYaOnSondee Use your brains, if she'd snapped her leg when she jumped from the gate how could she have run for the first half mile? She'd have gone down in the first fifty yards! What you saw in the movie was her striking the gate. The break actually happened after the first half mile. It is true that Velazquez could not pull her up for about 100-200 yards because she fought to keep running, but she did NOT run from the beginning of the race with a fractured ankle.

[Writeowl]

@diangofango Nice touch! Why not indeed. Especially if it's a fast car ;-)

[Writeowl]

@0Twintig She did strike her shoulder on the starting gate as she left the stall, in the match race with FP. This didn't cause the BREAK, but it unbalanced her and made her inadvertently place too much weigh on her other leg to regain her balance. This did contribute to the breakdown but was not the direct cause.

[annduline]

horses are nature's most beautiful gift to man.giving love and happieness in full with their grace and speed.

[0Twintig]

@SeeYaOnSondee

Ruffian died because she had a disease called Soft Bones,

which is commen in horses Ruffian's age. They say she hit her leg but,

that was not true,her father broke down 3 times then finally was put down in,

his field. And her mother broke her two front leges the same way as Ruffian.

Oh and she died in 1979 two years after Ruffian's death.

[SeeYaOnSondee]

@wwegirl619 No, She fractured her leg because she rammed the starting gate. It gave way from the speed and pressure on her leg. It shows it in the movie and real clip. Why else would they add padding in the gates? They didnt have it back then. Maybe her parents did brake their legs, but it isnt the cause of her death.