Ron Flatter

And he broke down on the front stretch the first time by in the Preakness.

And then the owners really went out of their way to try to bring him back to health beyond anything they were going to be insured for.

They thought, we want to save this horse.

And the horse looked like he was going to live.

But one of the cruelest things that happens with horses is a disease called laminitis.

Yes, he contracted it.

Yeah, he got that in recovery.

And finally, it was just too much to put the horse through any further.

But they got almost a year more out of him.

And the research that was done as a result of...

is being kept alive to this day is beneficial for thoroughbreds.

So my wife always records it for me, and I always forget to program, and then I come back home, and then I'll watch it sometimes, and then sometimes I'm already into a bottle of something and a cigar.

But I do eventually get to it.

It is a wonderful show.

One of the things that they capture is the fact you've got 20 horses in this race.

You've got 20 really good stories.

You can find a good story with every one of them.

For instance, you've got...

so happy who won the Santa Anita Derby.

Mark Glathier, for the first time as a Derby trainer, he lost his wife to a sudden illness and she passed away in February.