A cheap claimer with bad knees and a nervous disposition doesn't seem like much of a broodmare prospect, but a mare with those characteristics helped prove that John Nerud could develop breeding stock as effectively as he could racehorses. The matings he planned for her yielded two champions and an ancestress of Derby winners in two different countries. Name her.
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chris s
8/15/2015 10:22:06 am
Aspidistra!
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Avalyn
8/15/2015 01:40:17 pm
Bingo!
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