COLM GREAVES: Horsemanship and heavy drinking - Garrett Gomez excelled at both

Garrett Gomez, winner of 13 races at the Breeders’ Cup, died at the age of 44 last month.

Santa Anita Park, November 6, 2010

Zenyatta, one of the finest mares to ever grace a racetrack, was about to contest her 20th and final race. Her owner had sportingly campaigned her all the way through to the age of six, foregoing a couple of lucrative breeding cycles in a quest for immortality and their gamble had paid off.