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Fiddler's Pilgrim romps like a dream horse after a long road back from cannon bone infection

A.P. Indy scion raring to go after 5 months in stall

In the visage of Fiddler’s Pilgrim is a horse that positively reeks of racing nobility. Darkly dappled and startlingly beautiful, Pilgrim grew to an eye-popping 17.2 hands in perfectly sculpted height, and tips the scales at close to 1,500 pounds. And with two racing kings in the family—A.P. Indy and Hansel—everybody expected, no, they knew that someday, he too would be a stakes horse. But as so often happens in life, and in racing, fate turned on a dime. And Pilgrim was no stakes horse. In four starts, he managed to turn in a second-place finish at Aqueduct before he […]