Yesterday's News

I should draft this stuff earlier. Inevitably you get caught in the whirl such as today's BB :58 and change. I'm still on last week and trying to understand what caused the injury to War Pass. Be nice to know precisely what happened with War Pass--gallop and breeze schedule, times, distance, fractions, number of strides, nutrition, diagnostics, vet reports. We'll never know. But, anybody interested? The Grayson Jockey Club, somebody from a Vet School, the NTRA, perhaps, that came within a rat's whisker of another TV tragedy? For prevention, do we have to get answers to this stuff?

Hopefully there's arthroscopic surgery that can reattach that sesamoid to avoid a lifetime of pain for this colt. I've seen 'em standing with torn sesamoids. It's other than pretty.

As part of my "frequency" of breezing/racing posts I'll try to put together the works of WP, for do we know whatever they did here that something went amiss, presuming it was other than the rare bad step.

Training:
Art has his normal off day yesterday in 2 inches of rain. We'll slog through the mud under tack tonight, and Rod will be back in action after two days off, one due to a late discovered lost shoe.