Ruffian vs. Foolish Pleasure - The Great Match (1975)

Ruffian and Foolish Pleasure battling at Belmont Park with Dave Johnson calling. Frank Y. Whiteley trained champions such as Tom Rolfe, Damacus, and Forego, but he is best remembered as the trainer of Ruffian. Two days after her death he glanced at her old stall at Belmont and said, “That stall will never be occupied as long as I have this barn. There’ll never be another horse worthy of entering it.“
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