She answered every question, dotted every "i" and looked good enough doing it for Mike Smith to crown her as "God's horse."

Boy, did she run

She ran for us, the too-big, chunky but determined older girls who are always beautiful on the inside and have so much to offer.

She ran for them: Ruffian, Go for Wand, Eight Belles,: all of that brilliance and fire and destruction,  somehow coming full-circle in a race for the ages, a performance that moved a crowd of thousands, and touched my heart.

From across the pond: