Michael Beychok and Glorious Dancer

[OldDog]

"When Michael Beychok won the $1 million first prize in the National Handicapping Championship he never forgot about the filly who made it all possible. The horse that put him over the top is named Glorious Dancer, who came through for Beychok in an $8,000 maiden claimer at Golden Gate Fields. But for all the determination she showed that day to win the race by a nose, she would always be a cheap horse and cheap horses often wind up on someone's dinner table.

So Beychok vowed that no harm would ever come to this horse."

http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/stor...n-dollar-heart

[my miss storm cat]

What a great story.

Huge cheers to him (and to you for posting it).

[my miss storm cat]

BUMP.

edit - For anyone who missed his speech at the Eclipse Awards please consider watching it. VERY nicely done especially the challenge to other players to donate 10 percent...

http://www.drf.com/events/eclipse-awards-watch-live

[hondo]

What a great story and obviously a "good hearted" person. Would really like to see some day that the industry steps up and they begin to take even a fraction of a % to support horse rescue.