>>530851765
She mentions it here too, which made me cry even more. The real Silence Suzuka was incredibly dominant until the 1998 Tenno Sho where he broke his leg and had to be euthanized. What's even more, usually when a horse gets an injury like that when they are running that fast, the jockey gets flung off and can get really hurt or die. But Suzuka was able to slow down to protect the jockey. A very sweet horse whos last act racing was to protect the jockey riding him.

https://youtu.be/QT4MSb_TWdw?si=6Fndq5AYpqtyvqKh&t=131