HE has rarely been out of the news throughout his career, but it not every day that a champion racehorse makes such a sensational impact at stud with their first runners, especially when they themselves earned just $67,000 from two wins in three starts as a juvenile, those wins coming over a mile and an extended mile.

A contemporary of Arrogate, now off the mark finally with his first couple of winners, Gun Runner was third to that horse in the Travers Stakes, a position he also occupied behind Nyquist in the Kentucky Derby. In that sophomore year Gun Runner won the $1 million Louisiana Derby and gained his most notable win in the Grade 1 Clark Handicap over nine furlongs.