| Who cries for Eight Belles? The beautiful grey | | | | freak accident she broke her ankles after she ran |
| great-granddaughter of the great Northern | | | | her heart out. |
| Dancer, winner of the Derby and sire of Derby | | | | She belonged with the big boys and showed she |
| winner Dancer's Image and granddaughter of the | | | | could run with the big dogs and she beat 18 of |
| 1990 Derby winner Unbridled, Granddaughter of | | | | them but the biggest one--the best 3 year old in |
| Caro who sired Winning Colors (the last filly to win | | | | the world beat her fair and square. In the old |
| the Derby) and niece of the 1996 Derby winner | | | | days they would bring a gun out and shoot them |
| Grindstone had the pedigree to win the Run for | | | | right on the track and haul them away. They do it |
| the Roses. She also had the heart of a lion and | | | | differently now, but Eight Belles is still gone--but |
| delicate crystal ankles, as all thoroughbreds do. | | | | the memory of how she gave it her all will remain |
| The filly showed the world that she was the | | | | in Derby legend and lore forever. I cried for her |
| second-best 3 year old in the world on the first | | | | because I know what it's like to lose a great |
| Saturday in May and certainly the best filly. Her | | | | horse to an injury. |
| nose was in Big Brown's tail the entire way and | | | | I cried for Eight Belles but I know I wasn't the |
| she was running away from the field as he ran | | | | only one--the people who loved her and cared for |
| away from her. She was the best 3 year old filly | | | | her cried with me--and longer and harder than I. |
| in racing and if Big Brown had not been in the | | | | PETA has no clue about most things--they are a |
| race, she would have joined Regret, Genuine Risk | | | | publicity hungry terrorist organization and for |
| and her cousin Winning Colors as only the fourth | | | | them to use the death of the beautiful filly who |
| filly to win the Run for the Roses. She ran her | | | | had more heart than she had legs is reprehensible. |
| heart out to win because she was born and bred | | | | Their crass attempt to beat the beautiful dead |
| to run with the wind--it's what Thoroughbreds | | | | filly shows that they don't have the class she |
| do--what they've always done. I cried for Eight | | | | showed in running for the roses and giving her life |
| Belles when I saw her poor broken body on laying | | | | for them. |
| on the track. She ran the race of her life and in a | | | | |