Gelding - especially doing so early on - leads to soundness in the legs?

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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

If so -- all of these real cheaper bred horses who don't look promising early-on should probably be gelded as yearlings.

I'm suprised by how many horses at PID who are age 4 and 5 - and are still ungelded according to the PP's - yet have displayed no lick of ability at any time in their racing career.

If you gelded all of them you wouldnt make too many mistakes

Of course now guys are hesitant to geld horses because geldings can't be given steroids or even testosterone. A "whole" horse is allowed to have unlimited testosterone in their systems but a gelding is limited.