Charles Hatton on the 1970 champion two-year-old from the 1971 American Racing Manual.
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This is pretty contemporary observation...
"Parenthetically, it is sometimes suspected on shed row that the enormously fast horses are fated to break down, and the quicker the sooner so to say. Generalizing, there would seem some basis for this in an age horses carry heavy imposts on frightfully hard racetracks.
Fewer horses bow than in the day of deeper courses, but the concussion of racing on modern surfaces comes to an appalling incidence of bad ankles and broken bones. One has the impression that were tracks harrowed deeper, there would be less clamor for analgesics. The legendary Old Rosebud and patriarchal Domino bowed in yearling trials. There are exceptions to all the rules of course, and Sarazen and Osmand wore reasonably well in fairly recent times, gifted as they were with superlative action and heavy, dense bone."
jm
"Parenthetically, it is sometimes suspected on shed row that the enormously fast horses are fated to break down, and the quicker the sooner so to say. Generalizing, there would seem some basis for this in an age horses carry heavy imposts on frightfully hard racetracks.
Fewer horses bow than in the day of deeper courses, but the concussion of racing on modern surfaces comes to an appalling incidence of bad ankles and broken bones. One has the impression that were tracks harrowed deeper, there would be less clamor for analgesics. The legendary Old Rosebud and patriarchal Domino bowed in yearling trials. There are exceptions to all the rules of course, and Sarazen and Osmand wore reasonably well in fairly recent times, gifted as they were with superlative action and heavy, dense bone."
jm
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