W. L. Carter knew there was something fishy going on when he went to his lawyers' office a few years ago to pick up his settlement check for the heart damage he had sustained from taking the diet drug combination fen-phen.

W. L. Carter knew there was something fishy going on when he went to his lawyers’ office a few years ago to pick up his settlement check for the heart damage he had sustained from taking the diet drug combination fen-phen.

Curlin (foaled March 25, 2004 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and winner of the 2007 Preakness Stakes and Breeders' Cup Classic.Curlin was sired by Smart Strike, a former star from the Sam-Son Farm racing team in Ontario, Canada and is a half-brother of 1991 Canadian Triple Crown winner, Dance Smartly. He is out of the mare Sherriff's Deputy, a daughter of Canadian Horse of the Year and two-time North American Champion sire, Deputy Minister.The colt was named for Charles Curlin, an African-American slave from western Kentucky who fought for the Union Army with the United States Colored Troops in the American Civil War. One of his original owners, Shirley Cunningham, Jr. through his interest in Midnight Cry Stables, is Charles Curlin's great, great grandson.