Rick Porter, successful thoroughbred owner, dies at 80

[ASFN Admin]

Rick Porter, a successful owner who campaigned such top thoroughbreds as 2011 Horse of the Year Havre de Grace and ill-fated Kentucky Derby runner-up Eight Belles, has died. “He fought the hard fight,” friend and Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith told The Associated Press on Monday. Porter’s Fox Hill Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, had career purse earnings of over $32 million, according to Equibase.

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