Sunshine Forever
One of my favorite race horses of all time is Sunshine Forever, and one of the best races I’ve ever seen was his win in the 1988 Budweiser International at, of all places, Laurel Park in Laurel, Md., (before that track began to reek of old men and despair). This video, put together by the rescue/retirement group where he now lives has a clip from the race. It’s good to see! The big guy still looks as handsome as he did when I saw him in the mid 1990s at Darby Dan Farm.
Old Friends (where Sunshine Forever now lives) is an interesting organization. It surprises me a bit that no one was able to pull off such a high-profile rescue before them. When Sunshine Forever got shipped to Japan and faded into obscurity, I spent an unhealthy amount of time worrying that he would meet the same fate as Ferdinand, but these guys got him out and back home to Kentucky. If nothing else, I will always be grateful to them for that.
