Grade I winner Wallenda (Gulch–So Glad {Arg}, by Liloy {Fr}) was euthanized Monday at Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement facility where he had resided since being pensioned in 2007. The 26-year-old stallion was suffering complications from a collapsed suspensory.
“He was, by any definition, a warrior,” said Old Friends founder and President Michael Blowen. “Like his sire, Gulch, who was also with us for many years, Wallenda was one of the toughest and most resilient horses we have ever known.”
Campaigned by Dogwood Stable, Wallenda won the 1993 GI Super Derby and GII Pennsylvania Derby, as well as the 1992 GII Cowdin S. and 1994 GIII Stuyvesant H.
He entered stud in 1995 and stood first in New Zealand and later in Japan. Old Friends, with the help of Dogwood, trainer Frank Alexander, members of the stallion's syndicate, and loyal supporters, returned Wallenda to the United States in 2007.
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