Horse Racing: The Dancer's Fall

Nobody is going to convince Dancer's Image that a dog's life is all that bad. Consider just one week in the life of a horse. First, Dancer's Image was disqualified from first place in the Kentucky Derby; then he was disqualified from third place in the Preakness.

It took the stewards at Louisville's Churchill Downs race track 43 hours of interrogation and deliberation to decide what to do about Peter Fuller's grey colt, who was found to have been drugged when he won the Derby. In the end, the stewards succeeded only in adding to the mystery that surrounds the...

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