Sometimes, a name fits a horse's personality, and that was the case with Thisbigdogwilfight, who has been retired from racing at the age of 10 after being one of the premier Illinois-conceived and -foaled pacers of this century.
"It was time," said his longtime trainer, Jim Eaton, of Crete. "He wasn't able to overcome his problems anymore. These last couple of years, the horse has had a lot of trouble with his front ankles, and the arthritis just got so bad it was time to quit with him."
Thisbigdogwilfight is turned out to pasture with 56 career victories, the vast majority of them coming in the circuit's highest level overnight events and ICF stakes, purse earnings of $978,789 and the title of a former world record holder.
"If he wasn't so close to earning a million dollars [only $21,215 shy], I might have not tried to come back with him a couple of months ago," Eaton said.
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