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Originally Posted by outofthebox
Congrats on the nice win. Funny how i remember my friend Andy who is Albertrani's assistant who said the horse needed to be gelded last year, but the sheik wont geld them. He just drops them in claimers and changes the owners name from Darley to South Elkhorn i believe.
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South Elkhorn is the outfit we claimed him from. When this horse showed up in the claiming race last October Gary and I did a lot of homework. From all reports he was pretty clean legwise, but heard his back end was a little weak and he didn't have much courage. To me he ran like he had a breathing problem, or since he was a ridgling, maybe that was causing him to back up. He always worked fast in the mornings so we figured he had ability (hell, I bet him against NoBiz in the Remsen). After we claimed him he scoped clean so we made the decision to geld him for that reason and not to just throw his nuts over the barn roof. Also, what idiot gelds an AP Indy out of a graded stakes winner? Dr. Selway who performed the surgery said the testicle was in a spot that had to be bothering him and was one of the worst he had seen. A little acupuncture and he has been pretty good so far. His only real bad effort was his first time out for us and I think it was just the wet track because he just does not like an off surface, 400 Tomlinson number be damned.