Dual classic winner and 1999 Horse of the Year Charismatic has died.

Charismatic was foaled March 13, 1996. He returned to the United States from the JBBA Shizunai Stallion Station in Japan on Dec. 4, 2016, and was pensioned at Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement center in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Old Friends president and founder Michael Blowen said the stallion was found dead in his stall early Sunday (Feb. 19) morning without any signs of distress. The farm’s veterinarian Bryan Waldridge, DVM, MS, Dipl. ABVP, ACVIM, of Park Equine Hospital, in Paris, Kentucky, was immediately called to the scene.

In a Feb. 21 update from Old Friends, farm veterinarians said a necropsy revealed that a pelvic fracture was behind the stallion’s death

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