The track vet noticed a "change" in the horse per the below excerpt from the DRF website article:
According to Bailey, she noticed "a very subtle change in the horse" Saturday morning during a routine prerace exam that is required of all runners.
"I discussed it with Julio and his vet, and they agreed to scratch the horse," Bailey said.
Because The Pamplemousse was not scratched by the vet, he is not on the veterinarian's list. Instead, he is listed as a stakes scratch, and does not have to work for the vet in order to be eligible to race again.
Still, The Pamplemousse will need further evaluation, Bailey said.
"It was a problem I didn't want to see progress," Bailey said.
Bailey is one of two vets who do the exams the morning of races. She said she had done the prerace exam on The Pamplemousse in several of his recent races.
"I'm very familiar with the horse," she said. "There was a change."
Bailey would not elaborate on what the nature of the change was in The Pamplemousse, but his connections have acknowledged in the past that he has odd-looking tendons on his front legs.
"He has big tendons," said Alex Solis II, who put together the ownership group that bought The Pamplemousse as a 2-year-old. "He had them when we bought him."
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