When the Maryland Jockey Club carded the inaugural Barbaro Stakes on the Preakness Stakes card, it was prophetic that trainer Michael Matz would enter Chelokee.
After all, Matz had saddled Barbaro to win the 2006 Kentucky Derby and then watched in horror as the colt sustained a catastrophic injury in his right hind leg. The colt eventually died earlier this year due to the effects of
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