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Old 10-30-2009, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Diver67
it goes back a while, but English-bred Alibhai was unraced--he sired Determine, Bardstown, On Trust, Flower Bowl, and Your Host--who in turn sired Kelso.
The folklore is that when the colt was in training in New York soon after he was imported, he got away from the exercise rider and broke the track record in an early work, leading to bowed tendons in both forelegs, because he wasn't ready for that sort of exertion yet.
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