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	Photo By: Benoit & Associates		Commanchero - Visual (Avatar) Owner: Tom Durant Trainer: Ronny Werner Jockey: Mark Guidry Breeder: Tom Durant (TX)

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Trainer Ronny Werner said the Kentucky Derby hopes for Tom Durant's Most Feared were gone by the half-mile pole as he watched the Texas-bred gelding steadily lose ground in Sunday's (Apr. 19) Coolmore Lexington Stakes (GII) at Keeneland. Werner, speaking by telephone on Apr. 21 from Lone Star Park in Texas, said Most Feared appeared to have come out of his listless sixth-place finish behind the victorious Scrimshaw in good shape. But the race was a huge disappointment for Werner, who had seen his Texas-bred gelding train beautifully in preparation for the Coolmore Lexington, which was his first race since Feb. 15. Werner said Most Feared appeared to be jostled in traffic heading into the first turn of the 1 1/16-mile race, but he saw no other problems during the race to account for the effort. "He went to the half-mile pole and just had nothing - it's one of those head-scratchers," said Werner. "He took a shot or gave a shot in the first turn, I don't know because I didn't get to see the replay afterwards. But he got tangled up a little bit and if he took a good enough shot, that might help explain it. But I just know that he galloped in and it's a shame. He just worked super strong over there (at Churchill Downs) and he just stunk it up. He just galloped in and it was ridiculous - he ran about a half-a-mile. He wasn't even blowing when he came back." Werner said he would continue to watch Most Feared closely over the next few days for signs of any physical problems. If he concludes that Most Feared is sound and his problems may be mental, there would likely be some time off in the gelding's near future. "Works are just way different from a race," said Werner. "You've got to show up race day and he didn't. We've got to pull our horns in on him and see where we want to go. We may want to go in an allowance race, but if he doesn't come out of this we may want to turn him out and let him forget about everything."

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As A 3-Year Old

As A 2-Year Old

Finished 10th of 11, beaten approximately 10 lengths by Saintly Look, in the Jan. 25 Lecomte Stakes (GIII) at Fair Grounds

Finished a troubled third behind Soto in the Grade II Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes on Nov. 30 Finished sixth, beaten 9 1/4 lengths by Vindication in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (GI) on Oct. 26 Won the Arlington-Washington Futurity (GIII) at Arlington Park on Sept. 28 by 3 lengths Won the $50,000 Continental Mile Stakes at Monmouth Park by 9 1/4 lengths on Aug. 18 Broke his maiden in his thirds careet start on July 17 at Monmouth Park

Starter Anaylsys By: Steve Fugitte

Pedigree Analysis By: John Gaver III

Off The Visa Triple Crown Trail

Born: January 19, 2000 Dosage Index: 1.60 The Texas-bred gelding Most Feared is by the young sire Commanchero, a son of 1990 Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled, who will try to become the first gelding to win the Derby since Clyde Van Dusen did so in 1929. Commanchero is the sire of one crop of nine foals and of the two horses that it made it to the races, both were winners (Most Feared and Show Me Gone). It stands to reason that Commanchero will get main track routers in his offspring, given his sire's proclivity for a classic distance of ground on dirt, and this gelding is out of an Avatar mare, a son of the stayer Graustark, which gives him a stamina in his distaff family as well. Most Feared's dam, Visual, is the mother of three foals, all of which have made it to the races and have won, and her family traces back to the stakes winners Nooo Problema (won the Sugar Bowl Handicap and Risen Star Stakes) and Bad Gerty (multiple minor stakes-winner in the Northeast). As a broodmare sire, Avatar is the sire of 40 producing daughters to date and 35 stakes winners including the champion turf mare Possibly Perfect and the additional stakes winners Boundlessly, Morning Meadow, Loveview, Fighting Notion, Bedova (Fr), Harvard Can Group, Mylittlevic and Pemaquid Point. View Pedigree »