“The camera cut away from her, but it should have stayed on her. Eight Belles had run herself half to death yesterday, and now the vets were finishing the job as she lay on her side, her beautiful ...

STANTON, Del. — As Eight Belles' jockey continued Tuesday to cope with the horse's death, her trainer vehemently denied that the horse's size was the result of steroids. Larry Jones became visibly ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Jockey Club said on Thursday it had set up a committee to look at equine safety following the death of Kentucky Derby runner-up Eight Belles. The filly collapsed shortly after ...

Eight Belles' breakdown is a reminder of frailty of powerful thoroughbreds. LEXINGTON, Ky., May 4, 2008 — -- The excitement over Big Brown's victory in the 134th Kentucky Derby quickly turned to ...

We’re eight days away from the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico in Maryland, the second leg of the Triple Crown, run at 1 3/16 miles. Still, it seems the pall of the death of filly Eight Belles is falling ...

BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Eight Belles, the filly who collapsed after the Kentucky Derby and was euthanized, suffered compound fractures of both front legs at the ankles, a necropsy report released ...

There won’t be a dramatic fight for life this time around. No national day of mourning for a brave horse who wouldn’t give up. Schoolchildren won’t be sending cards. The people who cried for Eight ...

It is hard to imagine, even after Barbaro, a more wrenching finish to a Run for the Roses than the fate of Eight Belles, who, after a spectacular place, went down with two broken ankles and was put to ...

LOUISVILLE, May 4 -- Michael Matz arrived Sunday at the Churchill Downs barn where his horses had stabled during Derby week, having just returned from the Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, ...

We are breeding a refined thoroughbred to obtain more speed. In this quest for speed, we have lost, bone structure and the confirmation needed for 3-year-olds to race and remain sound. Eight Belles ...

Having spent nearly 35 years in and around the horse industry, I think Sally Jenkins hit a home run in her May 4 column about the truths the television cameras shied away from at the Kentucky Derby on ...