Quality Road: Hoof 'ice cold' and he gallops
 

http://www.drf.com/news/article/102771.html

talk about throwing a monkey wrench into the mix

-bt-

Ugh.

Ut oh.

Deja-vu from pre-Belmont last year... bummer.

Maybe Chuck can weigh in, but depending on the severity, can they not just patch it these days and it will be good as new. Going quite aways back I remember Touch Gold having a quarter crack or infact tearing off part of his hoof after the Preakness but it was easily repaired with fibreglass in time for the Belmont.

So this was known on Friday....Wonder if the people who bet the horse in Pool 3 of the wager would have liked to have known that.

Better now than in two weeks. He should be fine.

Chuck probably can fill in more but four weeks out seems like enough time to me.

If he misses training time he will become a auto-toss for me.

Unless you are 100% the best shape you can be in, you dont win the Derby.

I guess now the talk will revert back to "Dunkirk!!". Ugh.:rolleyes:

Thats what I'm thinking...they won't run him if he's not healthy, but if he misses even a little training at this point it's not good.

You have to wonder whether the hard, fast track on Florida Derby Day caused a prior condition to resurface. This is the part of the tracks' fascination with souped-up racing surfaces that never ceases to amaze me. Sure, maybe you'll put on a show that might fool the uninformed masses that attend "big race" days, but at what cost to your horse population down the road.

"Jerkens said he noticed the quarter crack in the winner's circle of the Florida Derby, "

when I saw the headline the first thing I thoght was... the track was too hard and fast and caused the quarter crack

I wonder if Scat dad.. I mean Quality Road will wear a bar shoe

also if he wears a bar shoe he's an auto toss.

If Unbridled's Song couldnt do it... nobody can!!

anything out of the norm will hurt Qr, and i doubt they will run him in the derby if it hampers his training , however to many others showed me more to talk about Dunkirk, i just can't see what the fascination is with this horse.

Maybe because he ran second to Quality Road? I dunno, that might be a stretch.

That stinks :(
this with the I Want Revenge connections under a cloud, I guess the stars are aligned for POTH. :D

yes he did but was beat easily in a small field, and he reminds me of casino drive last year all talk. will i eat my words maybe, but until he beats someone he's just a runner.

Who?

Jon White's favvvvvvvvorite horse.