Sports
Alex Harthill couldn’t believe that it had been a decade ago.
July 6, 1985
Movies
The nation mourned when the great Barbaro was euthanized less than nine months after winning the 2006 Kentucky Derby.
June 4, 2007
Archives
Walt Disney Co. and its ABC and ESPN television networks were sued by a Racing Hall of Fame jockey and the trainer of the filly Ruffian to stop a movie about the horse’s career, cut short by a 1975 accident at Belmont Park.
June 7, 2007
“Incredible” and “unbelievable” have been rendered bleeding, meaningless things by the hucksters (and prosaists) of today, but they described what the grand filly Ruffian had become 15 years ago Friday -- the day she had to die trying to prove she was real.
July 8, 1990
Two brilliant fillies who tried to beat colts not only lost the races, they lost their lives.
Feb. 28, 1990
The moment was, to be sure, one of the most dramatic seen in sport in the decade of the 1970s, and certainly among the most electrifying ever witnessed in the long history of thoroughbred racing in America.
Sept. 15, 1991
Ruffian designers Brian Wolk and Claude Morais were standing backstage in front of garment racks with the all black-and-white lineup of the spring 2015 collection they were shortly to unveil Monday evening, talking about how they ended up staging their show in Los Angeles instead of in New York as they’d done for the last eight years.
Oct. 28, 2014
Entertainment & Arts
Originally written for radio in 1964, Joe Orton’s “The Ruffian on the Stair” proves a somewhat checkered inaugural production for the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood.
April 29, 1999
World & Nation
Stuart Symington Janney Jr., one of the nation’s most respected horse breeders and the owner of Ruffian, was killed in an automobile accident while driving home to his horse farm in Glyndon, Md.
Sept. 24, 1988
When trainer Wayne Lukas is asked about Lady’s Secret’s chances of becoming Horse of the Year, he says smugly: “Who else would they vote for?”
Oct. 2, 1986