"...OH... Repossess has stumbled! Gary Stevens has been trying to pull him up this whole time! He's still got Gary Stevens on his back, and he's still racing to the finish, but now with a broken leg! He crosses the wire 19 in front in 2:24! It's the same as Secretariat's record! I'll bet he would have beaten it if he hasn't stumbled! And now Gary has managed to pull Repossess up. The vets are rushing out to him. What a heart this horse has! He pulled the reins from his rider after getting hurt by Caradhras, ran away with the race, broke his leg, got back up, and finished, almost breaking the record! Wait a second, i forgot, he's a Triple Crown winner! The 47-year drought has been ended!"

Order of finish:
Repossess
Fine Line
Blank Fire
Caradhras
Lemmesee
Aur Top Dog

~Repossess~
Gary was trying to soothe me, and it was working until I saw the needle. I knew what that meant. I had seen it before when a horse crashed during a morning workout. They put that into him, and he went still a minute later. I never saw him again, so I assumed he was dead. So naturally, when they were trying to give it to me, I freaked out. I may be hurting, but I had to see Ryan again before I died. And Tower.

And then Fine Line, who got second, turned around and looked at me. He saw the needle too, and whinnied. "Hold on, dude!" He fought his jockey and sprinted over to me. And then, as I backed away and tried to take off, restrained only by Gary, Fine Line bit the man trying to give the lethal dose to me. I reared, knocking the needle out of his hand, and it fell to the ground. When I landed, I landed right on it, and there was a crunch.

"You can't put that horse down! He doesn't want you to! And neither does the other horse!" a random man from the crowd screamed.

And so I wasn't put down. While they bandaged my leg, Fine Line licked my face. He let me snuffle him, and told me he didn't like what Caradhras had done, and had made sure he was out of the money. He had challenged Blank Fire to a duel for second. I realized something: I had found a friend in the most unexpected of places.

They put me on a van and took me to a hospital much like New Bolton, except this one was called Rood & Riddle. I was there for a long time. I didn't know anything of the outside world, so I didn't know what else was happening that rocked my world.