11.   Then the colt was troubled by a lung infection and another cracked hoof.

12.   Touch Gold sustained the cracked hoof when he stumbled badly at the start of the Preakness.

13.   Touch Gold ran a noble fourth in the Preakness and won the Belmont and Haskell on a cracked hoof.

14.   But the colt had to contend with a cracked left front hoof and the unfavorable outside post position and finished fifth at Churchill Downs.