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Old 06-17-2011, 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi View Post
Afleet Alex's arthritic ankle was likely the result of his unorthodox, yet much ballyhooed, "twice a day" training regimen, as a opposed to a single incident like the stumble.

If any one thing sent him to the shed with a bullet, it was the ridiculous 5f in :59+ he endured in his first work back, a mere 60 days after having a screw inserted in his cannon bone.
My recollection of this is that the blow he suffered caused part of the cannon bone to become necrotic, much the same sort of bone injury as Bo Jackson suffered to his hip. It would have broken had he kept racing.
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