Skunktail dead at 29

With a name like his, this hard knocking Nebraska gelding needs to be remembered in a racehorse thread. RIP. Nice article remembering him.

http://www.omaha.com/sports/local-sports/horse-racing-notes-popular-nebraska-horse-skunktail-dies-at/article_17a805cc-7011-5a60-9e9e-49db4eeb4f08.html

I didn’t see the cause of his death. Do you know? Racing thru his 13th year, he was a warrior.

You would think it would be easy to find pictures, but this is the best I could do with Google:
http://www.whitehorseproductions.com/images/horsecolor/oddities/skunktail_rabicanotb.jpg

Cool picture of Shunky. There was no reports on the cause of death.

http://www.pedigreequery.com/skunktail

Don’t know if anyone read down further, but 82 year old Don Von Hemel is still training and winning. Talk about a hard knocker of a horseman. Donnie and Kelly’s father was a mainstay at Ark-sar-ben.