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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
Also, the sire of this horse raced just six times and gets a lot of unsound horses .. the dam only raced once ... as last year showed so glaringly, health is more important than anything with these young and underraced horses who appear more and more fragile as a group all the time.
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Speaking of El Padrino's sire Pulpit and Pletcher ... there was a gruesome breakdown of a Pletcher/Pulpit horse in a $7,500 N2L claiming race in the last at AQU today.
Hopefully Cornilio Velasquez is ok. He went down very hard and took someone else with him.