Quote from: Senator L on May 29, 2016, 07:06:43 AM
Suddenbreakingnews - picks up Mike Smith. It helps having
a jock that has ridden there before. Looks like the only one
with low odds will be Exaggerator

Well, there's that jockey upgrade PLUS a new definition for the ultimate equipment change.....they found 'em!

Sold for $72,000 and listed since then as a gelding, the Kentucky Derby's fifth-place finisher was recently found to have two undescended testicles, making him a ridgling potentially able to breed — though not likely — after his racing career ends. That won't change trainer Donnie Von Hemel's immediate plans, however, to work the son of Mineshaft on Sunday or Monday toward the June 11 Belmont.

"He looks like a gelding. He acted like a gelding. I had no reason to think otherwise, and that's the way it was," Von Hemel said. "I think there were a few other times I said, 'Boy, you might wish you hadn't of gelded this horse.'"

Owner Samuel Henderson ordered that after purchasing Suddenbreakingnews. But as the horse emerged as a prospect for the Triple Crown series, representatives of the farms where he was raised and learned to race corresponded and discovered the operation never happened.

Von Hemel said a recent ultrasound showed the testicles to be small, and in Suddenbreakingnews' abdomen, resting at a temperature too high to reproduce. And so his career will continue on as planned, with retirement not in sight.