Montauk

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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

If by some miracle the horse was able to simply survive it probably would be enough, but I suppose being afforded an opportunity to flame out in a foreshortened 6-start career also has its merits (at least in terms of a stallion career).

As it stands, Montauk--after breaking his maiden--skipped the BC because they didn't want to "ship him across country" then curiously skipped the late season juvenile races at Aqueduct and Churchill Downs because of "minor issues". Shipped to Florida for a Derby trail run, he pulled up stakes entirely because of a "minor throat issue" (by comparison Alysheba, Coronado's Quest, Frosted, and Holy Bull all had wind problems during the same part of the calendar year and didn't miss the classics because of them.)

My best guess, if he had the same connections, is that he would have been the next Army Mule.

He had the same trainer as Army Mule.

The weirdest part, as I recall, was how he shipped to Florida very quickly after his maiden win, as though they knew right away he wasn't running again that year.