Gelded

A trip to The Festival might be next on the agenda for Green Book but after that a return to the Flat beckons for the gelded son of Authorized with a tilt at the Chester Cup in May identified as a potential target.

Since being gelded at the completion of his three-year-old season, Arkansaw Kid has two wins and a second in three starts.

He ran well in his first Australian start and has been gelded so he should run well on his new home track.

Antonio is an I Am Invincible three-year-old who has been gelded since his November 30 placing at Canterbury behind River Bird.

Raymond Danielson will be riding last year’s Gauteng Summer Cup winner Tilbury Fort while Piere Strydom will ride nicely weighted Zillzaal, who was a very impressive winner of his first run after being gelded.

The 7-year-old gelded son of Stormy Atlantic will have his third different rider in the Breeders’ Cup.

Hellyer was seconds away from ending his life when ‘Bart’, a brumby who had just been gelded, came up to him.

A gelded male of two years of age bonds closely with its new charges and is instinctively very effective in preventing predation.

A male mule is properly called a horse mule, though often called a john mule, which is the correct term for a gelded mule.

During the 1830s, quaggas were used as harness animals for carriages in London, the males probably being gelded to mitigate their volatile nature. citation Local farmers used them as guards for their livestock, as they were likely to attack intruders.