Arkle

[Diamond Geezer]

Found this in the RTE archives, may interest some

http://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/1110...national-stud/

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I remember a student colleague of mine telling me he saw practice with the vet involved in digging up Arkle's skeleton.
When putting the skeleton together they could not find the fractured pedal bone so substituted it with another one marking the fracture site; the vet at the dig had kept it as a souvenir .
Nice feature in today's Racing Post Sunday supplement; 10 things you may not know about Arkle: this could be number 11 !