Exceptional Horses

Born Deaf and Blind, Tough Sunday Wins His First Stakes Race

Newborn Tough Sunday struggles to survive. Photo Credit: Tough Sunday FB Tough Sunday never had it easy, not from day one. He was born with “dumb foal syndrome”, deprived of oxygen during birth, he was born blind and deaf. His first week of life was spent at the veterinary hospital. Tough Sunday showed [...]

Celebrating Ruffian

Melanie2020-12-14T22:29:07+00:00July 7th, 2017|Categories: Features, Horses|Tags: Exceptional Horses, Firsts, Girl Power, Horse Racing, Thoroughbreds|

“As God is my judge, she might be better than Secretariat…” (Lucien Laurin, Secretariat’s trainer, quoted in the Blood Horse’s Thoroughbred Legends: Ruffian) She was born April 17, 1972 at Clairborne Farm, Kentucky, owned and bred by the Janney family of Maryland. Born into a royal bloodline her dam, Shenanigans, was the daughter of Native [...]