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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I'd say he was pretty unsound. He was all over the track against First Samurai when DQ'd in the Fountain of Youth.

He's also ran like an ouchy horse in a few other races this year.

His dam has dropped a pair of other very good horses - one of them, Desert Hero (the remarkable winner of the '96 San Rafeal) died at age 4 - the other, current 3yo Virtruvious....has had a messy career so far.

He's certainly insane, I'll give you that. One minor ankle fracture though that required 30 days of walking hardly qualifies as unsound in the modern world of the thoroughbred. The majority of stallions out there have had some sort of issue like that. It always strikes me as strange that if a horse has one minor injury during training that they return from they are labeled unsound but when they have a major injury that forces their retirement they somehow escape that label.