In the spring of 1991, I visited the Derby dreams of Tommy Valando.
Fly So Free was the first horse that the Broadway music publisher had ever purchased and he would be a star on the race track.
Valando was already a hit on Broadway. His company had published a dozen musical hits, including Fiddler on the Roof and Cabaret. And his first thoroughbred was an absolute show stopper.
Fly So Free won the Breeders' Cup Ju...
Holy Bull was a thoroughbred fairytale waiting to happen.
In 1994, the beautiful gray had already captured the public's imagination. They made him the favorite in the Kentucky Derby. But on a rainy May 7th Holy Bull got lost in the crowd. Go for Gin was the ultimate mudder, and the big gray came home a mud spattered 12th.
Holy Bull won multiple graded stakes and 13 of 16 races. He earned 2.4 million dollars. Yet his memory is...
