Friday, June 6, 2008

Casino Drive in Doubt

The status of Casino Drive, the 7-2 second-choice for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes (gr. I) is in doubt it was announced Friday morning. The winner of the May 10 Peter Pan Stakes (gr. II) did not go to the track this morning.

“He has a small issue with his left-hind leg and we are not happy,” said Nobutaka Tada, spokesperson of owner Hidetoshi Yamamota and trainer Kazuo Fujisawa. “So we did not go to the track.”

“We have not yet scratched him from the race,” he said outside Barn 17. “There is nothing stopping us at this moment and we are not thinking of scratching. We think it might be a small stone bruise and we will watch it closely.

“It is very minor,” he said. “We detected it when he walked before he was going to the track. We noticed it when he was picking it up higher. We felt it and it was warmer than the other feet.”

Its a Stone Bruise. and will be working on it but will not be scratched yet.

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