THE well-named America’s Joy has died after an accident in training. She had yet to face the starter, but the fact that she was due to race would indicate that connections were hopeful she would win, and maybe do better.

After all, the three-year-old daughter of the Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof The Nile) was purchased as a yearling for a record $8,200,000 by Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm, and she was in training with Todd Pletcher.