Multiple Graded Stakes Winner Futural Euthanized

The 20-year-old gelding was euthanized July 25 due to complications caused by advanced chronic osteoarthritis.
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Multiple-graded-stakes winner Futural has died. The 20-year-old gelding was euthanized Monday evening (July 25) due to complications caused by advanced chronic osteoarthritis.

Futural had been pensioned at Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement farm in Georgetown, Kentucky, since 2006.

Bred in Florida by Harry T. Mangurian, Jr, Futural (Future Storm – Twigazuri, by Dixieland Band) scored his biggest wins at the age of five, capturing the 2001 San Bernadino Handicap and Mervyn Leroy Handicap.

In 2002 Futural captured his first Grade 1 win in the Hollywood Gold Cup, but he was controversially disqualified for interference and placed third

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