Go For Wand was sired by Canadian Hall of Famer Deputy Minister, out of Obeah (winner of, among other races, the Blue Hen Stakes, and the Delaware Handicap twice).
Go For Wand was leading by a head at the sixteenth pole when she suffered an open fracture to her right cannon bone.
She fell to the track and threw jockey Randy Romero to the ground before rising to limp on three legs.
Several veterinarians estimate that she broke her leg about twelve strides before she fell, which would mean that she suffered her catastrophic injury while passing the flagpole next to which Ruffian was buried.
As part of the "Thoroughbred Legends" series, in 2000, author Bill Heller published a book about the filly titled "Go For Wand."