“Here was a racehorse who turned his blue collar into gold. Once no more than a member of the chorus, he grew to seize the great stages of the West, hitting all the high notes of speed, stamina, and consummate class.
For two solid years, from mid-2005 to the summer of 2007, the California landscape was dominated by a tightly-knit gelding who personified Hemingway’s definition of courage as grace under pressure, time and time again.
Lava Man is the kind of storybook Thoroughbred that turns the Sport of Kings on its head. As a racehorse he was a rough customer, up from the streets.”
