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> Actually I saw him several times. I also lived in Baltimore during his
> prime. That was also the home of his main jock, Chris Macrron. JH had
> all the things said about him that I mentioned. He is calf kneed. His
> conformation is not all that good. His breeding is not "what produces
> great TB's."  Bur for some reason he just kept winning and winning.
Again, "conformation" is so much more than legs.  He was in his late 20s
when I saw him, and he still had a GREAT body.  The legs are the least of
it--the proportions are what make them efficient or inefficient.  And he
had that in spades.

> Actually gelding didn't solve the disposition problem. He got the name
> John Henry - steel driving man - after he beat his feed bucket into the
> ground after he was gelded. He ran Macarron out of his paddock at
> Kentucky Horse Park at the ripe old age of 27.
No, it didn't solve it--but it at least made it possible to get him onto a
track.

Heidi



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