The talented and versatile Left Bank has died following complications resulting from colic. The son of French Deputy had been recuperating at Ashford Stud in Kentucky.  

A winner of the Whitney Handicap on his final start, the five year old was operated on earlier but never really recovered.  

Trained by Todd Pletcher for Michael Tabor, Left Bank was purchased for $600,000 at the Fasig Tipton Calder 2 yr sale.   

Left Bank won 14 of 24 starts and over $1.4 million.  

He was at his best this year when winning the Tom Fool Handicap in spectacular fashion, thrashing multiple Grade 1 winner Affirmed Success by over six lengths and then beat the best older horses around including Street Cry and Lido Palace in the Whitney.

It was thought the Whitney would test the entire’s stamina but he gamely held off World Cup hero, Street Cry with subsequent Woodward Stakes winner Lido Palace back in third. 

Left Bank had earlier won the Grade 1 Vosburgh Stakes over champion sprinter Squirtle Squirt and after a fifth in the Breeders Cup Sprint was  a devastating winner of the Cigar Mile. 

Left Bank, described once by Tabor as possibly the best horse he had ever owned, was from the family of Oh So Sharp, Royal Charger, Petite Etoile and Nasrullah.