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		Ruffian's first race as a 3 year old was on April 14 in the 6 furlong Calthea Purse at Aqueduct, which she won by 4 1/2 lengths.
		Ruffian seemed to have trouble, bouncing off Foolish Pleasure for several lengths, but she increased her margin to about a half length in front as the pair approached the clubhouse turn.
		Ruffian is buried near the flagpole at Belmont Park, with her nose pointed towards the finish line.
	www.equinenet.org /heroes/ruffian.html (876 words)

	Ruffian (horse) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ruffian (April 17, 1972-July 7, 1975) was an American champion thoroughbred racehorse, considered by many to be the greatest female racehorse of all time.
		A dark bay or brown filly, Ruffian was born at Claiborne Farm, near Paris, Kentucky.
		Ruffian is buried at the quarter pole in the infield at Belmont Park, facing the finish line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruffian_(racehorse) (624 words)

	Ruffian: Racing's Greatest Filly
		Ruffian was also nicknamed a heartbreaker her first season, one of the toughest of all horses to beat, because she just didnt know how to lose.
		Ruffian's three year old season was as amazing as her previous one.
		Ruffian stuck her nose in front, the opening quarter was run in 22 1/5.
	www.tbgreats.com /ruffian/bio.html (807 words)

	Still no easy answers on tragic anniversary
		Ruffian was a perfect 10 for 10 when she stepped into the starting gate on July 6, 1975, for what would be her last race.
		Ruffian came along just as the women's movement was reaching an apex, and she became a kind of role model for girls and women everywhere.
		Ruffian was sedated and taken to Dr. William O. Reed's equine clinic across the street from Belmont.
	www.press-enterprise.com /newsarchive/2000/07/06/962859740.html (1503 words)

	Ruffian (racehorse) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ruffian (racehorse) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ruffian (racehorse) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ruffian (racehorse).
		Until her tragic end, Ruffian wasn't only unbeaten, she was also never headed.
		She raced successfully from 5 1/2 furlongs to 1 1/2 miles with an average winning margin of 8 1/3 lengths.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Ruffian-racehorse.html (305 words)

	FictionPress.Com Story : Ruffian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ruffian was the perfect champion, everybody’s hopes were high for her future.
		In every race Ruffian had run in, she’d run against fillies, and it was clear that she dominated her gender.
		Ruffian proved to each and every one of the people that saw her that she was not the filly who didn’t want to run.
	www.fictionpress.com /read.php?storyid=1761907 (581 words)

	Ruffian : Burning From the Start
		Ruffian: Burning from the Start is the story of this exceptional filly, a horse so dominating, so powerful, that writer Walter Farley once suggested she was more like the fictional legend, the Black Stallion, than any colt he had ever seen.
		Ruffian's grace and glory came not just from winning her races, but from the almost arrogant confidence with which she ran down any horse whose misfortune it was to be on the same track with her.
		Ruffian herself was extraordinary, a freakishly large, near-fl filly with an unearthly stride and speed and the drive to run.
	www.quizbox.com /resources/books/details.aspx?id=0345450000 (1437 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ruffian (horse)
		Horse-racing is an equestrian sporting activity which has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times were an early example, as was the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology.
		Native Dancer (March 27, 1950-November 16, 1967), nicknamed the Gray Ghost, was one of the most celebrated and accomplished thoroughbred racehorses in history, the first horse made famous through the medium of television.
		Furosemide (INN) or frusemide (former BAN) is a loop diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and oedema.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ruffian-%28horse%29 (1008 words)

	National Museum of Racing - Hall of Fame
		Ruffian had a habit of leaving behind the best fillies and mares of her era.
		Ruffian's beauty and speed caused many to demand that she face the best males of her generation.
		Ruffian was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1976.
	www.racingmuseum.org /hall/horse.asp?ID=128 (344 words)

	CNNSI.com - SI For Women - 100 Greatest Female Athletes - Monday November 29, 1999 02:49 PM
		As a two-year-old, she won each of her first five starts by an average of over seven-and-a-half lengths before her season was cut short by a hairline fracture in her right rear leg.
		But when Ruffian came out of anesthesia, she kicked and bucked until her cast was mangled.
		Ruffian was buried in the infield at Belmont.
	cgi.cnnsi.com /siforwomen/top_100/53 (394 words)

	On the 30th Anniversary of Ruffian's Last Race
		The racehorse's trainer, Frank Whiteley, said "she was just a different horse, was like nothing you ever seen." When she ran it seemed she was not even trying, seemed to float over the ground.
		Ruffian had taken a bed step and was soon on her way in a jelly cast to recuperate in Camden, S.C. In spite of doubts about her injury, Ruffian came back in 1975 stronger than ever to win the Caltha Purse.
		She is buried where no other horse has been buried, where she ran her first and last race at Belmont in the infield under the flagpole, her nose pointing, as it always did, to the finish line.
	equisearch.com /horses_riding_training/sports/racing/ruffian_070805 (713 words)

	Pedigree Database Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ruffian was more than a racehorse at that time.
		She was a symbol for women's rights--it was a different era.
		Anyway, re how Foolish Pleasure wound up in Wyoming -- although he had a good stud record, he was getting on in years and had a pretty rough temper to boot -- he'd been moved around a lot during his career and was never fashionable.
	www.dmtc.com /phorum/read.php?f=10&i=3538&t=3538&v=f (213 words)

	Ruffian (horse) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Ruffian (horse) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Some of this effect is likely also due to breeding practices that select for horses likely to have short, brilliant careers--like Ruffian's--instead of the traditional racing career which might have lasted several years.
		This page was last modified 15:33, 15 Jun 2005.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ruffian_%28racehorse%29 (579 words)

	Ruffian - Reviews on RateItAll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ruffian is the most over-rated TB of all time, not only fillies but horses generally.
		Ruffian was buried in Belmont, her nose pointing to the finish line.
		But for this 'Queen of Racehorses' to be put in her rightful place in history, we must look past her tragic last moments and instead look at how dominant she was in an era of great horses.
	www.rateitall.com /i-28821-ruffian.aspx (1667 words)

	Gone Too Soon
		Ruffian was and remains the "Queen of the Fillies." She set or broke a record in 9 of her first 10 races.
		Swale is the first racehorse I can remember, so he has always had a place in my heart.
		Go For Wand is generally acknowledged as the best filly since Ruffian, and she certainly has the record to prove it.
	www.freewebs.com /whp/gonetoosoon.html (651 words)

	Ruffian (racehorse) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ruffian (born 1972 by Reviewer and out of Shenanigans) was a championthree year old filly racehorse.
		Known as the "Queen of the Fillies", as a two andthree year old, she won ten of the eleven races she started.
		Tragically, despite twelve hours of medical attention administered by a team of four vets and anorthopaedic surgeon, Ruffian was finally euthanized.
	www.therfcc.org /ruffian-racehorse--144320.html (109 words)

	\| National Jewish Outreach Program \|
		So, for instance, in 1975, a racehorse named Ruffian, who was one of the greatest racehorses that ever lived, died.
		The newspaper headlines in New York, and all over the country, reported Ruffian death, that Ruffian was laid to rest, that Ruffian was buried in Belmont Raceway.
		Not a single person got an obituary like the racehorse Ruffian, even though, some very notable people, were killed in that plane crash.
	www.njop.org /html/VAYIKRA1999.htm (799 words)

	Amazon.com: Ruffian : Burning From the Start: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ruffian was arguably the best thoroughbred filly that ever raced: the horse won all five of the events it entered as a two-year-old in 1973, frequently setting or tying track records, and duplicated that string of successes the following year, taking the filly triple crown.
		On July 6, 1975, Ruffian was entered in a match race against Kentucky Derby winner Foolish Pleasure; partway through the race Ruffian broke a front leg and, despite an operation, had to be destroyed.
		Schwartz tells Ruffian's story from her birth, breaking, training, and racing, to the day of the ill-fated "battle of the sexes" through the eyes of her handlers, grooms, jockeys, and trainer.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345450000?v=glance (2208 words)

	IPABRA "Bloodlines" : Man O' War - The "Mostest" Horse
		Every generation has a racehorse that they are proud to call their own.
		His father Fair Play, although a top racehorse, had a bad disposition that seemed to easily pass to his offspring, and his mother Mahuba was an unknown mare who had only won $700 in her racing career.
		He had a stride four feet longer than the average racehorse, was extremely strong and powerful, loved to eat, and loved even more to run.
	www.ipabra.org /newsletter/volume02/issue06/manowar.php (1662 words)

	TRC NOTEBOOK - December 2, 1999
		Former jockey Julie Krone and multiple champion filly Ruffian were selected by the editors and writers of Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated for Women and CNN-SI among the top 100 female athletes of the 20th century.
		Ruffian, a champion at two and three whose last competition was the ill-fated match race against Foolish Pleasure in 1975, is number 53.
		It is the first time in the college's 191-year history that a party is being thrown at the school for a horse.
	www.isd1.com /trc/trc99/trc1202.html (1233 words)

	Discovery Channel :: News :: 28 Thoroughbreds Spawned All Racehorses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		15, 2005 — All thoroughbred racehorses alive today are descended from an elite group of 28 animals imported from the Middle East and North Africa 300 years ago, according to a new genetic study presented at the British Association Festival of Science in Dublin.
		Genetic detective work on more than 200 thoroughbreds and a trawl through a million race-horse pedigrees by a team of Irish researchers has traced the ancestry of the world's 500,000 thoroughbreds to just three stallions and 25 mares.
		Binns told the conference that he planned to study the genetic material from bones of many ancient thoroughbreds in the attempt to uncover genes that explain why one animal runs faster than another.
	dsc.discovery.com /news/briefs/20050912/racehorse.html (636 words)

	Ruffian! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But Ruffian is a five-headed rock and roll filly who only knows one path: the mad gallop of unbridled equine passion.
		Like the legendary undefeated female champion racehorse from whom they take their name, Ruffian leave the competition chomping dust.
		“Ruffian’s music puts a tiara atop a shoulder-padded power suit; it’s recess at a creative-writing master’s program in Louisiana; it’s a tattooed hip in torn fishnets and new Monolos.
	ruffianrock.com /press/index.php (173 words)

	Eclipse Press - Equine Publisher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Even against the backdrop of the 1970s, a decade of equine superstars and Triple Crown winners, Ruffian’s story stands out as one of the most poignant of her time.
		Not only had a fateful misstep erased a star from the sky, but thousands had witnessed Ruffian’s demise from the grandstand or on national television.
		Ruffian recounts the amazing career of this charismatic racehorse who set the standard by which all fillies and mares are measured.
	www.isd1.com /ep/ep02/ep0121.html (263 words)

	Secretariat The Greatest Thoroughbred in History as compared to Man-o-War
		Let’s assume for a minute that ManO'War, Citation, and Count Fleet were all in their prime and ran a race that was 1-¼ miles in distance.
		Any good quality racehorse can win races based on the level of their competition.
		Marianna Haun says in her book "The X Factor" that even though there is no heart score on Secretariat, based on the weight of his heart at autopsy his estimated heart score would have been 180.
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	Bogieblog: A Horse's Tail Tale
		Even though I knew what was coming, I had tears in my eyes when I read about Ruffian breaking down, and the decision to put her down after the surgery due to her tearing up her leg again while coming out of the anethesia.
		Early in that book, one of the excercise riders stated that he thought that Ruffian was lazy and didn't like to run.
		About Ruffian: I never knew much about her because at the time she raced, there were only 3 TV stations and they only carried the 3 big races (Triple Crown races), so I never really heard about the filly untill they started hyping the race.
	bogieblog.typepad.com /happenings/2003/07/a_horses_tail_t.html (614 words)

	Question re revisions & publishing (especially translations) - Eratosphere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was especially comforting when I broke my ankle at the same time the famous racehorse Ruffian broke hers.
		Ruffian took a mistep fracturing her ankle, Vasquez tried to pull her up but she kept trying to run.
		Ruffian is buried at Belmont under the NYRA flag pole.
	www.ablemuse.com /erato/ubbhtml/Forum9/HTML/001417.html (1280 words)

	Ruffian Filly
		Ruffian wins the Filly Triple Crown - CC Oaks post parade - This grand win photograph pictures the parade to post of The Coaching Club American...
		Ruffian was hailed as the greatest Thoroughbred filly of all time.
		Ruffian (racehorse) encyclopaedia article - Ruffian was a racehorse active in the 1970s.
	www.5minuteracingsystem.com /186/ruffian-filly.html (234 words)

	Newsletter #26
		But such was the pressure on Jolley and Ruffian's trainer Frank Whiteley Jr., and the jockeys, Braulio Baeza on the colt and Jacinto Vasquez aboard the filly.
		And along the way she touched the lives of the public at large, but particularly the lives of those lucky enough to be associated with her day in and day out.
		They were a diverse group of professionals, from hardboot-tough to emotional, but they will forever be bound together by the brilliance of one racehorse, Ruffian, whose glory marches on, undiminished, 25 years later.
	www.angelfire.com /id/horsemania/number26.html (8902 words)

	ESPN.com - Horse Racing - Great Match Race still haunts jockey
		It was not a stick but the right front ankle of Ruffian that Baeza heard snap during the Great Match Race between the remarkable 3-year-old filly and Kentucky Derby winner Foolish Pleasure.
		Despite attempts to save her, Ruffian had to be euthanized.
		Baeza was aboard Foolish Pleasure, who raced outside of Ruffian and Jacinto Vasquez through a wicked quarter run in 22.60 seconds.
	espn.go.com /horse/news/2000/0705/619299.html (390 words)

	Ruffian: Racing's Greatest Filly
		In one of racing's greatest decades, the 70's, Ruffian emerged as a true hero.
		On the fateful day of Ruffian's match race with another legend, Foolish Pleasure, the racing community and fans alike were full of sadness as Ruffian broke down during the race.
		On this particular site, credit is also given to Raelyn Mezger for her work on writing the biography.
	www.tbgreats.com /ruffian (148 words)

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