Where is ruffian buried

She could feel the cold coming from the dark cave that didn't look the least bit inviting. Her eyes turned pure white as she illuminates the cavern. The soft sound of water dripping echoed through the darkness; Sakia started to fe Ruffian is the best-known filly in the race industry from the s. She completely changed the way people saw racing safety for the horses as well as the riders.

Some say she could have been saved but others think it was more humane to euthanize her. She had every race fan on the edge of their seat, cheering, whether they wanted to or not. You couldn't help but hail her feminine beauty on the track. Everyone chose a side. It was male versus female. Both sides wanted to prove they were better. There were pins, shirts, flags and many other merchandise portraying the male and female symbolism of the match race. An estimate of 18 million people watched the race on CBS-TV [4] along with a track crowd of 50, [3].

No one was ready for the shock of losing the female superstar of racing. It all began when she came out of the starting gate. She ran her shoulder into the starting gate giving her a late start. The force cracked both of her sesamoid bones in her right front leg and as she ran on the bones shattered.

The first veterinarian to reach her was Dr. Manual Gilman. He had been a racetrack veterinarian for 31 years in New York. When the ambulance pulled up Dr. Gilman put an air boot on her temporarily to hold the shattered bones and stop the bleeding.

She was transported from the track to her stall in Barn It was chaos in the stall as they tried to help her. Everyone was trying to get in on the action; crowding the barn. Ruffian was so panicked and in shock when she was moved to a animal hospital outside of Belmont. She seemed to calm down on her way to the hospital after administering a tranquilizer to her.

The veterinarians had to bring her back twice from what would be called a medical death. Her heart was beating at 76 beats per minute to keep it moving. The normal heart rate for a horse is Even through the surgery her heart rate never came down. She was already in critical condition when the surgery began. The break itself wasn't so bad; it was the infection. The filth and sand from the track had been jammed into the wound. Gangrene would have set in if the wound was left dirty.

William O. There she was strapped to a huge vertical operating table and anesthetized and then the hydraulic table was lowered to a horizontal position and the complex emergency operation began. Twice during surgery, the doctors said, Ruffian suffered pulmonary shock — a sharply reduced heartbeat — but, they added, they were unable to pull her out of it both times.

The reduced heartbeat had nothing to do with the tragic outcome, they said. Fragments of bone were removed. The wound was found to be already badly contaminated, Dr. Reed said. At 11 p. Her ankle has dropped clear to the ground. July 3, am. At that instant, her right foreleg exploded, bones crushed, ligaments ripped, her hoof barely attached to her leg, even as she continued trying to run.

I'm looking and trying to understand. It was on the other side of the massive infield. You knew something was wrong, but did not know how wrong. He knew everything about what was going on. I would suspect at the time that both he and Frank thought that what had happened was irreversible. But they realized they had to do absolutely everything. And they did. The extensive surgery was a success.

If the same injuries happened today, Ruffian would be put in a recovery pool so if she thrashed about when the anesthesia wore off, she would not hurt herself.

Sadly, there was no pool. The family stayed in the stable area until nearly midnight before heading off to try to sleep. When Ruffian woke up, she began hitting the cast on her leg against her own body. The surgery was undone in minutes. In the early hours of the day after the Great Match, Ruffian was euthanized. She is buried in the Belmont Park infield. Match races became an American racing relic. It was a wonderful family experience. I don't know that we ever spent that many nights together on any other subject, but that's just the way it was.

We were very touched by this extraordinary number of people that thought this was something they needed to write about. The Janneys lived then and Stuart lives now in the Maryland horse country, north of Baltimore, not far from Sagamore Farm, the home of the legendary Native Dancer. Think Chester County's rolling hills and grass fields that spread out to the horizon. The elder Janneys passed away in the late s.