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Eight Belles (February 23, 2005 – May 3, 2008) was a thoroughbred racehorse owned by Rick Porter's Fox Hill Farms. She finished second to winner Big Brown in the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby held at Churchill Downs, a race run by only thirty-nine fillies in the past.〔(Fillies in the Kentucky Derby )〕 Her collapse just after the Derby's conclusion resulted in immediate euthanasia. Earlier in the year, Eight Belles made history at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas, by being the first filly in the history of the track to win the Martha Washington Stakes (February 17, 2008, by 13½ lengths, setting a stakes record for margin of victory), the Honeybee Stakes (March 16, 2008, beating stakes winner Pure Clan), and the Fantasy Stakes (April 12, 2008). ==Events after the 2008 Kentucky Derby== Eight Belles collapsed immediately after crossing the wire, while being slowed after the race.〔(NBC Sports video )〕 She suffered compound fractures of both front ankles and was immediately euthanized because of the nature of her injuries.〔(Filly Eight Belles Breaks Both Front Legs, Euthanized After Kentucky Derby - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog )〕 Dr. Larry Bramlage, the on-call veterinarian, stated that Eight Belles' trauma was too severe to even attempt to move her off the track.〔(ESPN - Favorite Big Brown dusts field; runner-up Eight Belles euthanized - Horse Racing )〕 According to the Louisville ''Courier-Journal'', Bramlage said the filly had fractures of the cannon and sesamoid bones in both front legs. That is the same type of break that was suffered by 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro in one leg.〔(vet analysis of leg problems )〕 Eight Belles was buried and memorialized in the garden of Churchill Downs' Kentucky Derby Museum on September 7, 2008. A race has been renamed in her honor, and was run on the Derby Day 2009 undercard as the Eight Belles Stakes.〔http://news.bloodhorse.com/article/46956.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eight Belles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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