I just needed to share this very sad news. She was a favourite of mine. I loved her.
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FLANDERS IS GONE
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She was so popular. I remember when her first foal was training before she was named, and the buzz about the track on her was that she was going to be very good. Everyone just called her "Flander's Girl" before she was Surfside. I can't think of any other foal that was called somebody's girl, rather than somebody's filly. I think that shows the affection the public still had for Flanders three years after she retired.
"When I am on my deathbed, I imagine I will say, 'Thank God I did that'" - Arthur Hancock, on buying back Gato del Sol from Europe after Exceller was killed in a slaughterhouse in Sweden.