John Nerud Turns 100 on Saturday

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Nerud's 100th birthday: Looking back on a proud career

Nerud never left the game entirely as an owner and breeder. He had about a dozen horses in training in New York several years ago, but today he’s down to two horses. He owns half of three-time winner Verbosity, now in training with Mike Hushion, and he has a yearling Thunder Gulch colt that he bred from his Colonial Affair mare Comedy of Errors. He’s named the colt Final Chapter.

“That’s the last horse I’ll ever breed,” Nerud said. “I gave the mare away last week.”

Owning a yearling at age 100? That’s typical Nerud.

“I have no plans to go anywhere,” he said. “I never expected to go this far, or I’d have took better care of myself.”