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Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts) Tue May 10, 2016, 05:07 PM May 2016

Because the Triple Crown has started--

Run for the Roses---Dan Fogelberg

This song was written for Ruffian, the greatest race horse of all time. Never beaten, never headed. Record: 11:10-0-0 (1DNF)

I was permanently traumatized along with 20 million other people who watched it on TV, when she broke down racing against Foolish Pleasure on July 6, 1975.

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Because the Triple Crown has started-- (Original Post) Manifestor_of_Light May 2016 OP

Silly Dan. The Bluegrass horse country is in east central Kentucky. KamaAina May 2016 #1

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

1. Silly Dan. The Bluegrass horse country is in east central Kentucky.

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Tue May 10, 2016, 05:37 PM

May 2016

"Born in the valley/And raised in the trees/Of Western Kentucky/On wobbly knees" indeed!

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