His IS a remarkable story. Thank you for linking your earlier piece.
"Normally, when your former champion two-year-old, record setting Kentucky Derby winning three-year-old, and Horse of the Year older horse wins a claiming race at age 10 and pulls up lame, it's probably best to retire him."
Well . . . yeah. We would certainly think so today. And I would think that Weir might have thought to handle his "pet" differently.
DRF ran this one three months later
http://www.drf.com/news/story-old-ro...erican-tragedy