Rumor Has It

Rumor has it that the fillies can’t run with the colts…I don’t agree. The filly I saw yesterday could run with the best of them and I would not have been afraid to wager on her to beat them. Although, if you watched yesterday’s Derby you might agree, many will agree, the whole controversy will be brought up again. People will say they don’t have the strength and endurance to run the distance. This may be true in some fillies, but it is just as true in some colts. There are champions in both sexes, strong and weak ones in both both sexes. I saw a very strong filly yesterday that had a terribly unfortunate accident.

It was truly a sad sight to see the magnificent filly down, such a promising career, such a promising life as a producer of quality foals. It is all speculation now, we will never know, as she will not have the chance to prove any of this. It was a heartbreaking sight, one that gave me that sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. I used to breed, raise, and show horses and have lost a few in my lifetime. I lost a young champion mare too. I had raised her from the bottle, as her dam became ill and her milk dried up. I bottle fed the filly, spent many a long night in a cold barn in February, uncertain if she would make it. She did and went on to win numerous championships. I was forced to euthanize her when she accidentally foundered due to an unlatched barn door. She lived for months, long hours were spent with different therapies, and happy “she’s going to make its”, when all of a sudden we also had a cannon bone problem. It rotated and broke through, there was little else we could do. I cried for weeks. I am sure the owners of this promising filly will as well.

There will also be the second guessing the decison made. I would say, “Don’t do that to yourself”, but that is fruitless, I still do after 19 years. I would say, “Don’t let the media or those that might say unkind words get to you”, but this to, would be fruitless. If you watch televison, you are going to hear them, if you do an interview, you will get the questions. So far, you have been wise (as far as I know) and you have avoided the public eye, I would say, “Continue to do so, no matter what others say”. You know your own truth, what others say makes no difference. Sadly, it is over, nothing can be changed, life goes on. Realize this, you will not be “the story” forever. Rumor has it that the media will find something else on which to fixate, actually this is no rumor, this is a proven fact.

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