Hall of Fame trainer Frank Yewell Whiteley Jr., the hard-nosed "Fox of Laurel" and conditioner of superstars Ruffian, Damascus, and Forego, died today in Camden, S.C. The state-of-the-art equine ...
SHE WAS A star and she knew it, big and powerful and gorgeous, the greatest 2-year-old filly anyone had ever seen, her like unimagined, potentially the greatest horse ever. Her name was Ruffian.
When horses die, they become metaphors. This was the lesson of "Seabiscuit," at least two Barbaro documentaries and now "Ruffian" (9 p.m. Saturday, ABC, TV-PG), a glance back at a filly of the Ford ...
NEW YORKNEW YORK — The remains of Hall of Fame filly Ruffian have been moved from Belmont Park to Claiborne Farm in Kentucky, where she was reburied Thursday. The move was necessary because the New ...
Frank Whiteley Jr., the Hall of Fame trainer of champions Ruffian and Forego, died on Friday morning at the age of 93 in Camden, S.C., according to friends of his family. No cause of death was given, ...
Walt Disney Co. and its ABC and ESPN television networks were sued by a Racing Hall of Fame jockey and the trainer of the filly Ruffian to stop a movie about the horse’s career, cut short by a 1975 ...
For many die-hard and casual horse racing fans of a certain age, the sight of Barbaro suffering a life-threatening injury during the Preakness summoned a sadness they had not experienced during a ...
The remains of Hall of Fame filly Ruffian have been moved from Belmont Park to Claiborne Farm in Kentucky, where she was reburied Thursday. The move was necessary because the New York Racing ...