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[[File:Runnymede_Farm_sign_North_Hampton_NH.jpg|thumb|right|Billboard at Runnymede Farm in [[North Hampton, New Hampshire]], featuring [[Mom's Command]] and [[Dancer's Image]]]] [[File:Runnymede_Farm_sign_North_Hampton_NH.jpg|thumb|right|Billboard at Runnymede Farm in [[North Hampton, New Hampshire]], featuring [[Mom's Command]] and [[Dancer's Image]]]] At the [[1968 Kentucky Derby]], a bad break out of the gate caused Dancer’s Image to fall to last place. However, the horse was able to make a comeback and passed [[Glossary of North American horse racing|favorite]], [[Forward Pass (horse)|Forward Pass]], at the [[eighth pole]] to win the race.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-01-sp-3316-story.html |title=THE 1968 KENTUCKY DERBY : THE VICTORY THAT WASN'T : Dancer's Image, Who Finished First, Was Disqualified After Positive Test for Illegal Medication |website=latimes.com |date=1988-05-01 |access-date=2016-06-05}}</ref> Three days later, it was announced that Dancer's Image was disqualified after traces of [[phenylbutazone]], a [[nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug]] (NSAID) commonly used to relieve inflammation of the joints were discovered in the mandatory post-race [[urinalysis]]. Forward Pass was declared the winner and Dancer's Image moved to last.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31269465/kderbys_dancer_disqualified/ |title=K-Derby's Dancer Disqualified |first=George W. |last=Hackett |agency=[[Associated Press|AP]] |newspaper=[[The Tampa Tribune]] |page=19 |date=May 8, 1968 |access-date=May 5, 2019 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> Fuller contended that he had been punished for his support of civil rights and his decision to donate a winner's purse to the widow of Martin Luther King, whose demonstration against housing discrimination in [[Louisville]] had disrupted Derby events the previous year.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.espn.com/espn/wire?section=horse&id=3377342|title=Questions remain 40 years after Derby disqualification|newspaper=ESPN.com|access-date=2016-12-21}}</ref><ref name="NYT Obituary"/> The controversy filled the sporting news of media outlets in [[North America]] and was a cover story for ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.si.com/vault/issue/42998/toc |title=May 20, 1968 Issue |website=[[Sports Illustrated]] |access-date=May 5, 2019}}</ref> which referred to it as "the year's major sports story."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1968/05/20/610228/it-was-a-bitter-pill |title=It Was a Bitter Pill |first=Whitney |last=Tower |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |date=May 20, 1968 |access-date=May 5, 2019 |via=si.com/vault}}</ref> Fuller took legal action and in 1970 a Kentucky Court awarded first-place money to Dancer's Image.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/12/archives/kentucky-court-awards-firstplace-money-in-68-derby-to-dancers-image.html ''The New York Times'' - December 12, 1970 article titled "Kentucky Court Awards First-Place Money in 68 Derby to Dancer's Image"]</ref> That decision was overturned on appeal in April 1972 by the [[Kentucky Court of Appeals]] in ''Kentucky State Racing Comm'n v. Fuller'', 481 S.W.2d 298 (Ky. 1972). Use of phenylbutazone was legalized by the [[Kentucky Horse Racing Commission]] in 1974, and by 1986 thirteen of the sixteen entrants in that year's Kentucky Derby were running on the medication.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-01-sp-3316-story.html |title=THE 1968 KENTUCKY DERBY : THE VICTORY THAT WASN'T : Dancer's Image, Who Finished First, Was Disqualified After Positive Test for Illegal Medication |first=Bill |last=Christine |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=May 1, 1988 |access-date=May 5, 2019}}</ref><ref>[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LH&s_site=kentucky&p_multi=LH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB738A9A11D0BD1&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM ''Lexington Herald-Leader'' - May 4, 1986 article titled "FIRST TWO HORSES ONLY ONES DRUG FREE"]</ref> At the [[1968 Kentucky Derby]], a bad break out of the gate caused Dancer's Image to fall to last place. However, the horse was able to make a comeback and passed [[Glossary of North American horse racing|favorite]], [[Forward Pass (horse)|Forward Pass]], at the [[eighth pole]] to win the race.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-01-sp-3316-story.html |title=THE 1968 KENTUCKY DERBY : THE VICTORY THAT WASN'T : Dancer's Image, Who Finished First, Was Disqualified After Positive Test for Illegal Medication |website=latimes.com |date=1988-05-01 |access-date=2016-06-05}}</ref> Three days later, it was announced that Dancer's Image was disqualified after traces of [[phenylbutazone]], a [[nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug]] (NSAID) commonly used to relieve inflammation of the joints were discovered in the mandatory post-race [[urinalysis]]. Forward Pass was declared the winner and Dancer's Image moved to last.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31269465/kderbys_dancer_disqualified/ |title=K-Derby's Dancer Disqualified |first=George W. |last=Hackett |agency=[[Associated Press|AP]] |newspaper=[[The Tampa Tribune]] |page=19 |date=May 8, 1968 |access-date=May 5, 2019 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> Fuller contended that he had been punished for his support of civil rights and his decision to donate a winner's purse to the widow of Martin Luther King, whose demonstration against housing discrimination in [[Louisville]] had disrupted Derby events the previous year.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.espn.com/espn/wire?section=horse&id=3377342|title=Questions remain 40 years after Derby disqualification|newspaper=ESPN.com|access-date=2016-12-21}}</ref><ref name="NYT Obituary"/> The controversy filled the sporting news of media outlets in [[North America]] and was a cover story for ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.si.com/vault/issue/42998/toc |title=May 20, 1968 Issue |website=[[Sports Illustrated]] |access-date=May 5, 2019}}</ref> which referred to it as "the year's major sports story."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1968/05/20/610228/it-was-a-bitter-pill |title=It Was a Bitter Pill |first=Whitney |last=Tower |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |date=May 20, 1968 |access-date=May 5, 2019 |via=si.com/vault}}</ref> Fuller took legal action and in 1970 a Kentucky Court awarded first-place money to Dancer's Image.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/12/archives/kentucky-court-awards-firstplace-money-in-68-derby-to-dancers-image.html ''The New York Times'' - December 12, 1970 article titled "Kentucky Court Awards First-Place Money in 68 Derby to Dancer's Image"]</ref> That decision was overturned on appeal in April 1972 by the [[Kentucky Court of Appeals]] in ''Kentucky State Racing Comm'n v. Fuller'', 481 S.W.2d 298 (Ky. 1972). Use of phenylbutazone was legalized by the [[Kentucky Horse Racing Commission]] in 1974, and by 1986 thirteen of the sixteen entrants in that year's Kentucky Derby were running on the medication.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-01-sp-3316-story.html |title=THE 1968 KENTUCKY DERBY : THE VICTORY THAT WASN'T : Dancer's Image, Who Finished First, Was Disqualified After Positive Test for Illegal Medication |first=Bill |last=Christine |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=May 1, 1988 |access-date=May 5, 2019}}</ref><ref>[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LH&s_site=kentucky&p_multi=LH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB738A9A11D0BD1&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM ''Lexington Herald-Leader'' - May 4, 1986 article titled "FIRST TWO HORSES ONLY ONES DRUG FREE"]</ref>

Another of Fuller's horses, [[Mom's Command]], won 11 of 16 races, including six graded stakes races, in her two-year career.<ref>[http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/horses-view.asp?varID=425] Racing Hall of Fame. Accessed February 13, 2011.</ref><ref name=gradedwins>{{cite web |title=Abigail Fuller Graded Stakes Wins |url=https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=StakesListing&searchType=J&eID=662&rbt=TB |website=Equibase |accessdate=16 August 2020}}</ref> In 1985, Mom's Command won the [[Mother Goose Stakes]], [[Acorn Stakes]] and [[Coaching Club American Oaks]] to capture the [[American Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Mom's Command fulfills 'dream' by winning CCA Oaks |work=The Courier-Journal |date=July 7, 1985 |location=Louisville, Kentucky |page=C1}}</ref> She was ridden by Fuller's daughter [[Abigail Fuller]], who became the first female jockey to ever win the Filly Triple Crown.<ref name="gradedwins"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Stathoplos |first1=Demmie |title=A Crown for the Fuller Fillies |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1985/07/15/a-crown-for-the-fuller-fillies |website=Sports Illustrated |accessdate=16 August 2020 |date=July 15, 1985}}</ref> Another of Fuller's horses, [[Mom's Command]], won 11 of 16 races, including six graded stakes races, in her two-year career.<ref>[http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/horses-view.asp?varID=425] Racing Hall of Fame. Accessed February 13, 2011.</ref><ref name=gradedwins>{{cite web |title=Abigail Fuller Graded Stakes Wins |url=https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=StakesListing&searchType=J&eID=662&rbt=TB |website=Equibase |accessdate=16 August 2020}}</ref> In 1985, Mom's Command won the [[Mother Goose Stakes]], [[Acorn Stakes]] and [[Coaching Club American Oaks]] to capture the [[American Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Mom's Command fulfills 'dream' by winning CCA Oaks |work=The Courier-Journal |date=July 7, 1985 |location=Louisville, Kentucky |page=C1}}</ref> She was ridden by Fuller's daughter [[Abigail Fuller]], who became the first female jockey to ever win the Filly Triple Crown.<ref name="gradedwins"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Stathoplos |first1=Demmie |title=A Crown for the Fuller Fillies |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1985/07/15/a-crown-for-the-fuller-fillies |website=Sports Illustrated |accessdate=16 August 2020 |date=July 15, 1985}}</ref>