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1. This filly died during her two-year old year, but not on the race track. Holding a lifetime record of five wins in five races, trainer D. Wayne Lucas was planning to run her at the end of November in the Hollywood Starlet Stakes. Six days earlier, she fell ill with a mysterious disease and died less than three weeks later. She was buried in the infield at Hollywood Park. Who was this champion who won the 1982 Hollywood Lassie by 21 lengths, leaving everyone to wonder just how good she could have been?
2. This horse didn't die on the track, but was euthanized later that night. In a match race against the Kentucky Derby winner, this filly broke both sesamoid bones in her right foreleg. The doctors tried to repair it, but when she came out of surgery she was unruly and shattered the cast and her elbow, causing irreparable damage. Who was this horse who had been undefeated in 10 lifetime races before the match race, including all three legs of the Triple Tiara?
3. Many theories came out after this New Zealand-bred super horse suddenly fell gravely ill in the period of less than two days. He won the Agua Caliente Handicap in Tijuana before being sent back to California. He caught a fever and then hemorrhaged to death. 74 years later, Australian scientists concluded with almost no doubt that the horse had been given arsenic within 35 hours before he died. Who was this horse that raced only once in North America yet still was rated the 22nd-best North American thoroughbred of the 20th century by Blood-Horse magazine?
4. This filly wasn't the first to die racing against colts, but she was the first since 1900 to die in the Kentucky Derby. She finished second, the best finish by a filly since Winning Colors won in 1988, but after the finish line broke both front legs entirely, causing her to be euthanized immediately, before even the trainer was contacted. Who was this budding star that won the Fantasy Stakes at Oaklawn Park to convince her connections to race her in the Kentucky Derby?
5. This son of Seattle Slew won the two longer legs of the Triple Crown. The Preakness was the only race of 14 lifetime races in which he did not finish in the money. His life, however, was cut tragically short when he suffered a heart attack while bathing barely a week after winning the Belmont. What horse that now has a sprint race at Gulfstream Park named for him died before anyone could see how he could do against older horses?
6. Had she not gone down at the 16th pole, she might have won the greatest race of the 20th century or at least of the decade. Instead, she lost what was easily the most tragic, when Bayakoa went on to win her second consecutive Breeders' Cup Distaff. What most people at Belmont remember is this champion getting up after completely shattering her right front ankle and hobbling in a fruitless attempt complete the race. What three-year old collapsed, throwing jockey Randy Romero in the process, down the stretch of the 1990 Breeders' Cup Distaff?
7. In the Rothmans International Stakes at Woodbine, this horse shattered his left hind leg in three places halfway through the race and was put down the following day. The previous year, he became the fourth winner of the Canadian Triple Crown and the second in as many years, on his way to winning Canadian horse of the year honors. He began his career racing in Kentucky and also raced a game third as the odds-on morning line favorite in the Jockey's Club Gold Cup at Belmont in his Triple Crown year. Who was this champ who died in 1991?
8. In 1993, both the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes saw a horse suffer an injury that required the horse to be destroyed. In the Preakness, Union City broke down and had to be euthanized. But this horse, who won the Preakness, broke down at almost the exact same place where in 1975 a champion filly broke down in a match race. Who was this horse that threw Mike Smith from the saddle and continued running for more than a quarter mile during the 1993 Belmont Stakes?
9. This gelding dominated west coast horse racing during the 1960s. He won numerous races multiple times, including the Hollywood Gold Cup three consecutive years (1965-1967). At age eight, he was only getting better until he suddenly fell ill. He died of horse colic, but not before he became the winningest California-bred horse of all-time. What horse won 37 of his 81 lifetime starts before passing away just after Labor Day in 1967?
10. On the first anniversary of his biggest triumph, this horse was probably best remembered not for winning that race but for the saga that surrounded the attempts to save his life after he broke down two weeks later. After breaking through the starting gates in the Preakness, this Kentucky Derby winner was reloaded, only to break his right hind leg in more than 20 places in the first furlong and a half of the race. Eight and a half months later, he was finally euthanized. Who was this horse that within a year of his death had a race named for him both at Pimlico and Delaware Park?
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