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• Report of Horse Deaths Creates More Questions

  Over the past five years, 3,035 thoroughbreds, standardbreds and quarter horses have died at racing facilities, but not all of them on the racetrack or in racing-related accidents. Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 1:25 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Horse Racing, Horses, Breeding of Animals, Eight Belles (Race Horse)

• Eight Belles Burial at Derby Museum

  Eight Belles will be interred at the Kentucky Derby Museum, near the grave sites of four Kentucky Derby winners. Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:38 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Horse Racing, Kentucky Derby, Eight Belles (Race Horse)

• Notebook: A Win for Eight Belles’s Camp

  The trainer Larry Jones and the jockey Gabriel Saez finally had something to celebrate when Buy the Barrel won the $150,000 Allaire Dupont Distaff Stakes on Saturday. Posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 9:06 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Horse Racing, Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Eight Belles (Race Horse)

• Sports of The Times: No Incidents: Race Is a Success

  There were no stumbles, no injuries, no after-race tragedies. This was a great day — a much-needed great day — for horse racing. Posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 8:50 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Horse Racing, Kentucky Derby, Big Brown (Race Horse), Triple Crown (Horse Racing), Preakness Stakes, Eight Belles (Race Horse)

• Tests Negative for Eight Belles

  A steroid test for the filly Eight Belles has come back negative. Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 11:44 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Steroids, Horse Racing, Eight Belles (Race Horse)

• Eight Belles Did Not Have Heart Attack, Necropsy Report Says

  The filly who broke down after the Kentucky Derby sustained compound fractures of her front legs at the fetlock joints, a report released Thursday concluded. Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:33 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Horse Racing, Kentucky Derby, Eight Belles (Race Horse)

• Sports of The Times: Racing Industry Is Stuck in Perpetual Post Time

  An insular industry built on horses and gambling is out of step, out of touch and out of sync with contemporary American culture. Posted Saturday, May 10, 2008 5:30 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Cruelty to Animals, Horse Racing, Barbaro (Race Horse), Eight Belles (Race Horse)

• In-Box: Emotional Responses to a Thoroughbred’s Death

  There was an outpouring of reactions to The Times’s coverage of the May 3 Kentucky Derby, in which Eight Belles broke her front ankles and was put down on the track. Posted Saturday, May 10, 2008 3:20 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Horse Racing, Kentucky Derby, Eight Belles (Race Horse)

• Sports of The Times: Filly’s Death Brings Issues to Fore, but Where Is the Accountability?

  The general public cares far less about the economics and far more about Eight Belles. Her public death should resonate in a way that forces reform. Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:37 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Cruelty to Animals, Horse Racing, Horses, Triple Crown (Horse Racing), Eight Belles (Race Horse)

• Tv Sports: Overdue Need to Reshape Faces in Winner’s Circle

  In the aftermath of the Kentucky Derby, here is my policy for all to follow: no more politicians should ever take part in a championship ceremony. Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 10:58 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Kentucky, Horse Racing, Television, Big Brown (Race Horse), Triple Crown (Horse Racing), Eight Belles (Race Horse), Novak, David, Costas, Bob

• Filly’s Owner Stands by His Decision

  Still saddened by the death of his filly Eight Belles, the owner Rick Porter said Monday that he had no regrets about running her in the Kentucky Derby. Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 10:39 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Cruelty to Animals, Horse Racing, Barbaro (Race Horse), Horses, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Kentucky Derby, Big Brown (Race Horse), Eight Belles (Race Horse)