Article: Kentucky Derby winner reminds us horse racing can be brutal.

Byline: Kevin B. Blackistone

DALLAS _ "Always bet the jockey," my grandmother instructed me, "not the horse."

Then she'd lead me to the two-dollar window and eventually down to the rail. To watch the trotters at Rosecroft during winter. To see the thoroughbreds at Laurel and Pimlico in the spring and at Charlestown in West Virginia over the summer and fall.

There were few things I became fonder of as a boy than watching the horses run. Then came that afternoon in the summer of `75 when, like so many others around the country, I watched that beautiful filly Ruffian break down on television in what turned out to be a fatal battle of the sexes ...

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