{"id":543,"date":"2008-05-12T10:33:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T15:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2008-05-12T10:39:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T15:39:32","slug":"breeding-for-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Breeding for speed and Big Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2008\/fusaichipegasus.jpg\" class=\"floatright\" \/>There was an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/11\/sports\/othersports\/11breeding.html?em&amp;ex=1210737600&amp;en=8bd24e709cf01335&amp;ei=5087%0A\">article by Joe Drape <\/a>in the New York Times on Sunday, May 11. Drape quotes Arthur Hancock III, breeder of three Kentucky Derby winners, including Fusaichi Pegasus (pictured), on speed in the modern Thoroughbred. &#8220;We&#8217;ve lost sight of trying to breed a sound solid racehorse,&#8221; said Hancock. &#8220;I&#8217;m guilty of it, too. The danger of it is great. Like Willie Nelson said, &#8216;Greed is terminal.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Drape also quotes Wayne McIlwraith, equine surgeon and past president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners, as well as Larry Bramlage, the on-call veterinarian at Churchill Downs, when Eight Belles was euthanized on the track, as a result of her breakdown following her second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby. Both McIlwraith and Drape discuss the change in Thoroughbred conformation over the past 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>In Monday&#8217;s New York Times, there is also an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/12\/sports\/othersports\/12dutrow.html?ref=sports\">article about Rick Dutrow<\/a>, trainer of Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown (who is also mentioned in Sunday&#8217;s article). Dutrow talks about his troubled past, which included a 5-year suspension from New York racetracks, and Big Brown&#8217;s prospects in the Preakness and Belmont stakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an interesting article by Joe Drape in the New York Times on Sunday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}