The Pegasus World Cup made me sad. It wasn’t the rain. Wet happens. It wasn’t the surface. We’ve all seen worse. And it wasn’t the looming night. Darkness only adds to the drama.
The Pegasus World Cup made me sad because saying goodbye to a horse like City of Light at this stage of his career is a crying shame.
I would like to believe that is exactly what little Stella McCarthy was feeling when she was captured in mid-sob by photographer Zoe Metz during an emotional farewell in the horse van alongside her dad, trainer Michael McCarthy.