Raon the Fighter

Bayern (Offlee Wild--Alittlebitearly, by Thunder Gulch), winner of the 2014 GI Breeders' Cup Classic, died Sunday after complications following emergency hernia surgery, according to a tweet from Great Hill Farm, which had stood the 15-year-old stallion in South Korea since 2022. "We fought alongside him day and night, exhausting every possible medical intervention and providing intensive care in a desperate struggle to save his life," the tweet read. "Heartbreakingly, his condition did not improve and we were ultimately left with no choice but to make the agonizing decision to euthanize...