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Year jockeys will be sporting special pants raising awareness for the thoroughbred retire men. todd: janice dean is with ted mezerik and joe rocco jr. jd, take it away. janice dean what a great foundation, ted, tell me about trf. it is the oldest retirement organization for the horses, we give them a good life after they are done racing. janice dean they race for five or six years and live to about 30 sometimes, right? yes, some horses will be done at three, some eight or nine. most horses live 25 to 30 years. janice: joe, you were on the ....
janice: so this museum has been a couple of years in the making. oh, this exhibit, we have been working on for about two years. we knew that the 50th anniversary of greatest race horses of all time. we had to go big. he is such an incredible athlete. we have beautiful documentary footage where he is seen in his beauty shots running through a meadow just gorgeous. he knew he was incredible athlete, too. janice: small horse by the way. he was this tall. 16.2. i love it. tell me why this horse was so special. he was really unique. people call him a super horse. people have called him a freak. and we know that because after he passed away, doctors did a neck crop city on him animal autopsy. they saw that his heart was enormous. it weighed 22 pounds. they were shocked. the doctors were shocked. and that is about two and a half times the size of a normal thoroughbred s heart 8 to ....