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BobA lot of you may be too young to remember a horse named Ruffian. Ruffian was a freak, a huge filly, perhaps the greatest filly who ever lived. Ruffian roared through all the filly only races destroying the competition by double digit margins and was entered in to a match race with the Kentucky Derby winner, Foolish Pleasure. On the backstretch tragedy struck and Ruffian broke down and was quickly destroyed. It seems like this was about 20 years ago. There are some who think Ruffian might have been the greatest racehorse of all time, not just greatest filly.
I thought about Ruffian this morning when I read about Barbaro....