Jacinto Vasquez

Fourteen years ago the great filly won her debut in style

Grass-loving Lemhi Gold won the Marlboro Cup while kicking dirt in the faces of contenders for Horse of the Year

Blazing down the backstretch, Ruffian was leading Foolish Pleasure when fragile bones in her right foreleg suddenly snapped. Her rival raced on to an empty triumph, and the brilliant filly's career ended in death

That's the only way to win a match race, horsemen say, so come-from-behind Foolish Pleasure will have to change his style when he challenges the unbeaten filly Ruffian in their head-to-head duel this Sunday

Big, beautiful, unbeaten, Ruffian may be faster than the top colts