Kentucky Oaks hopeful Sign out with injury
Jan 16, 2013 12:33:16 GMT -5
Post by cait on Jan 16, 2013 12:33:16 GMT -5
The 3-year-old filly Sign, winner of Churchill Downs’ Grade II Pocahontas by four lengths after taking a Saratoga maiden event by almost 12, is off the Kentucky Oaks trail, trainer Al Stall confirmed Wednesday morning.
What was thought to be minor bone bruising that surfaced in the wake of the Pocahontas failed to completely heal with time off and light training.
Subsequent examinations showed the start of a fracture line rather than a bruise to the condylar bone in her right hind leg. The daughter of co-owner Claiborne Farm’s late stallion Pulpit is to ship from New Orleans to Lexington Thursday to have a screw surgically inserted Friday at Rood & Riddle equine hospital, Stall said.
“They thought it would just go away with 60 days of just light training, but it doesn’t go away on the radiographs,” Stall said by phone from the Fair Grounds. “So we’re going to make it go away.”
Stall said his racetrack veterinarian estimated Sign will be off 30 days from training, “which I thought was pretty good. (But) the spring stuff is out.”
www.courier-journal.com/article/20130116/SPORTS08/301160073/Kentucky-Oaks-hopeful-Sign-out-injury
What was thought to be minor bone bruising that surfaced in the wake of the Pocahontas failed to completely heal with time off and light training.
Subsequent examinations showed the start of a fracture line rather than a bruise to the condylar bone in her right hind leg. The daughter of co-owner Claiborne Farm’s late stallion Pulpit is to ship from New Orleans to Lexington Thursday to have a screw surgically inserted Friday at Rood & Riddle equine hospital, Stall said.
“They thought it would just go away with 60 days of just light training, but it doesn’t go away on the radiographs,” Stall said by phone from the Fair Grounds. “So we’re going to make it go away.”
Stall said his racetrack veterinarian estimated Sign will be off 30 days from training, “which I thought was pretty good. (But) the spring stuff is out.”
www.courier-journal.com/article/20130116/SPORTS08/301160073/Kentucky-Oaks-hopeful-Sign-out-injury