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

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

I had always assumed exactly that.

The reason I posted this was because I found the case made by Vosburgh to be very interesting.

I had always assumed the only benefits of gelding were to make horses more manageable and easier to train.

Don't stallions start to fill out particularly in front? That'd put more weight on their forelegs and possibly increase risk of injury. If you've got a horse that might have soundness issues with those legs, might make sense to geld them to support a future racing career, esp. when you don't want to pass that conformation issue on to foals anyway. Even if there's not a conformation problem, if the horse is gonna be fairly big and his breeding isn't very commercial, you can just opt to have a racing career rather than risk having nothing at all.