"While the photographs might make some squeamish, they represent to me more than a simple record of a horse’s funeral. They represent a beloved ruler lying in state, his faithful subjects paying their last respects. They represent the end of an era -- the most magical and significant time in our sport’s history. And they show that, although his blood still courses through countless Thoroughbreds like Blame, Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta, Man o’ War was, after all, mortal."

"There is nothing 'greyhoundish' in his make-up and his flanks are well skirted at that."

"He pulled away from the fast traveling Hoodwink as a great horse should ..." (Lawrence Realization)

Lovely portrait of the great horse.