Another Obituary

of Spectacular Bid, this one from the Los Angeles Times.

Excerpt:

"Spectacular Bid, the winner of the 1979 Kentucky Derby and Preakness and perhaps the best horse ever to fall one race short of sweeping the Triple Crown, died Monday afternoon of an apparent heart attack.

"A son of Bold Ruler out of the Promised Land mare Spectacular, the 27-year-old gray, who had turned white as he aged, was the second Derby winner to die in less than a week. Sunny's Halo, who won the world's most famous race in 1983, was euthanized June 3...

"Spectacular Bid died 24 years, to the day, after his defeat in the Belmont Stakes. Trying to become the third Triple Crown winner in a row, after Seattle Slew and Affirmed in 1977 and 1978, Spectacular Bid was compromised by a safety pin and an ill-timed ride by jockey Ronnie Franklin."

And not in that order, I'm afraid.