The Pamplemousse out for the year
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from the San Diego Union-Tribune:
The Pamplemousse will be sidelined indefinitely, possibly for the rest of the year, because of the injury that prompted the opening-line favorite's scratch hours before Saturday's Santa Anita Derby.
The highly rated Kentucky Derby contender was withdrawn from the Santa Anita Derby when a veterinarian making a regular morning check found heat in a tendon in the left front leg.
A veterinary procedure yesterday morning revealed what part-owner Alex Solis II described as a small lesion on the tendon. Bill and Jeffrey Strauss of Del Mar, who own 20 percent of the colt, were among the first notified by Solis, around 9 a.m. yesterday.
He's done for the year, Bill Strauss said. He's too good a horse to mess with. We'll give him all the time he needs to recover. We'd love to get him back to where he was (physically) before it happened and aim for the 2010 Pacific Classic.
The $1 million Pacific Classic is the signature event of the summer racing at Del Mar.
In a release issued by Santa Anita yesterday, Solis was quoted as saying The Pamplemousse would be sidelined longer than six months. Solis also praised trainer Julio Canani, who quickly decided to scratch The Pamplemousse from Saturday's $750,000 race rather than risk further injury.
We're grateful that Julio decided to scratch, Solis said. The Pamplemousse will run again. His time off will be indefinite, but it will be longer than six months.
Bill Strauss said that it was too soon to speculate regarding the possibility of surgery. But my understanding is that time is as big a factor as anything in healing this type of injury.
After losing his first two career starts, The Pamplemousse had won three straight with the last two being the San Rafael and Sham stakes, both Grade III events, at Santa Anita this year.
A son of Kafwain-Comfort Zone, The Pamplemousse has career earnings of $209,280.
With his horse out of the Kentucky Derby, Bill Strauss said my heart's with Jenny Craig, and the Del Mar resident's colt Chocolate Candy.
Chocolate Candy finished second to Pioneerof the Nile in the Santa Anita Derby.
Dan Ward, assistant to trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, told track officials yesterday that Chocolate Candy couldn't be better, in the aftermath of the race.
He'll be staying at Santa Anita until he leaves for Kentucky, but we don't have a ship date, Ward said.
Pioneerof the Nile will ship to Kentucky on April 14, trainer Bob Baffert said.
The Pamplemousse will be sidelined indefinitely, possibly for the rest of the year, because of the injury that prompted the opening-line favorite's scratch hours before Saturday's Santa Anita Derby.
The highly rated Kentucky Derby contender was withdrawn from the Santa Anita Derby when a veterinarian making a regular morning check found heat in a tendon in the left front leg.
A veterinary procedure yesterday morning revealed what part-owner Alex Solis II described as a small lesion on the tendon. Bill and Jeffrey Strauss of Del Mar, who own 20 percent of the colt, were among the first notified by Solis, around 9 a.m. yesterday.
He's done for the year, Bill Strauss said. He's too good a horse to mess with. We'll give him all the time he needs to recover. We'd love to get him back to where he was (physically) before it happened and aim for the 2010 Pacific Classic.
The $1 million Pacific Classic is the signature event of the summer racing at Del Mar.
In a release issued by Santa Anita yesterday, Solis was quoted as saying The Pamplemousse would be sidelined longer than six months. Solis also praised trainer Julio Canani, who quickly decided to scratch The Pamplemousse from Saturday's $750,000 race rather than risk further injury.
We're grateful that Julio decided to scratch, Solis said. The Pamplemousse will run again. His time off will be indefinite, but it will be longer than six months.
Bill Strauss said that it was too soon to speculate regarding the possibility of surgery. But my understanding is that time is as big a factor as anything in healing this type of injury.
After losing his first two career starts, The Pamplemousse had won three straight with the last two being the San Rafael and Sham stakes, both Grade III events, at Santa Anita this year.
A son of Kafwain-Comfort Zone, The Pamplemousse has career earnings of $209,280.
With his horse out of the Kentucky Derby, Bill Strauss said my heart's with Jenny Craig, and the Del Mar resident's colt Chocolate Candy.
Chocolate Candy finished second to Pioneerof the Nile in the Santa Anita Derby.
Dan Ward, assistant to trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, told track officials yesterday that Chocolate Candy couldn't be better, in the aftermath of the race.
He'll be staying at Santa Anita until he leaves for Kentucky, but we don't have a ship date, Ward said.
Pioneerof the Nile will ship to Kentucky on April 14, trainer Bob Baffert said.
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