Winning Colors

> Posted 18 Feb 08 in Everything Else

Euthanized yesterday due to complications from colic. She was 23. She was a dark gray who matured into an almost pure white horse (like many grays). One of only three fillies to ever win the Derby. And how could anyone who saw it ever forget the 1988 Breeder’s Cup with Winning Colors and Personal Ensign battling down to the wire? It was probably one of the best races I ever saw, and although I was pulling for Personal Ensign that day to keep her perfect record in tact, the fact that she did it against a gutsy fast mare like Winning Colors added a lot.

Genuine Risk survives as the only living filly Kentucky Derby winner (she also happens to be the oldest living Derby winner).

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