The 16-3 hand American Saddlebred was a familiar performer at events across the country with a large repertoire of dance steps, including a fabulous hoola number complete with grass skirt.

The colt’s left hind foot developed the disease in July 2006 after surgeons repaired the injured right hind leg.

The Kentucky Derby winner was euthanized Jan. 29, 2007, eight months after romping across the finish line at Churchill Downs.

More than 320 people attended a fundraiser Nov. 18, 2006, to pay tribute to those who provided aid to 41 horses and a hinny involved in a trailer accident two months earlier.

Bill Thompson, the former owner and publisher of Saddle & Bridle Magazine, describes in 2005 how found himself surrounded with laminitic horses after he opened a retirement home for horses in 1991.