Pamplemousse Scratched; Out 6 months

[AlexP]

Yeah Mike, I'm pretty sure Z Day only entered as a rabbit for PioneerOf The Nile, and it's still a good thing he's in in my mind, because there wasn't really any other pace besides The Pamplemousse. Chocolate Candy took the lead earlier than normal in his last race, same for Pioneer, but that's now how either prefer to run.

[mbahadur]

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."

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Said that was gunna happen. Pounds the ground with the front two. Starting to catch up with him.

[westcoastinvader]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

Said that was gunna happen. Pounds the ground with the front two. Starting to catch up with him.

I really hope the horse is doing well.

But his morning scratch sure changed my Santa Anita wagering plans as I walked uninformed into the OTB 25 minutes before Derby time.

I elected to toss out Hollendorfer's Chocolate Candy as I made my revised wagers.


That was tough for me to do, since Hollendorfer hails from my original hometown, and he's of course a NorCal fave trainer.


I just didn't think Chocolate Candy would be able to get a piece of it, thinking the competition to date had been soft.

I was wrong, of course.

That's totally cool.

What really pis*ed me off was the ride Bridgmohan gave to the son of Smarty Jones in the 10th at Gulfstream as I submitted to a whim to get my Santa Anita Derby loss $$ back.

Isn't Bridgmohan purported to be a good jockey??

Cripes....Bridgmohan had no sense of the pace, no apparent internal clock instinct, and erroneously thought he had a horse that didn't need any look at the rail for the entire mile.


What a screwball Bridgomohan was.

He's not riding any of my horses from this point.

[HaloWishingwell]

TVG claims they will have Alex Solis II with an update after the first race at Santa Anita.

[sumitas]

A very interesting thead . One must thank Dr. Bailey for her due diligence .

[cabvmd]

As an examining veterinarian for 21 years, my hat and great thanks goes to Dr. Baily and the LA Turf Club Association. She most likely prevented yet another high profile raceday from having a horse get hurt. The job of examining Veterinarian is not easy. You only have short time to perform your exam and determine the soundness of a horse. Having the same veterinarian when ever posssible examine the horse each time it races is key. I remembered the horses I checked from week to week. When I first started in the job the assignments were the same every time a horse raced. Over the years the job climate has changed and there is a shortage of qualified examining veterinarians, forcing racing associations to rely on substitute veterinarians more often. Notes are kept in a master program for each days races so an examiner can go back to the previous starts to see if there has been any changes in the horse, but there is no better way to insure consistant evaluations of these horses than by having the same person examin the horse each time.

When I have recommended a horse be scratched, I have been sworn at, my skills as a veterinarian belittled, but I would rather have been "proved" wrong about any horse a thousand times than be right once. If I had questions about a horse and let it run any way and have something bad happen it would be just terrible. Most of the horses I have sratched pre-race did not race again, or had limited carreers after they had been scratched, meaning I had found some thing significant and the horse was not safe to race.

It is a TOUGH JOB. Thanks for all the Dr. Baily's out there. I hope racing will look to find enough qualifed veterinarians to perform this most important of jobs a the race track and compenstate these professional men and women at a level that reflects their knowledge and importance to the racing industry.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by cabvmd

As an examining veterinarian for 21 years, my hat and great thanks goes to Dr. Baily and the LA Turf Club Association. She most likely prevented yet another high profile raceday from having a horse get hurt. The job of examining Veterinarian is not easy. You only have short time to perform your exam and determine the soundness of a horse. Having the same veterinarian when ever posssible examine the horse each time it races is key. I remembered the horses I checked from week to week. When I first started in the job the assignments were the same every time a horse raced. Over the years the job climate has changed and there is a shortage of qualified examining veterinarians, forcing racing associations to rely on substitute veterinarians more often. Notes are kept in a master program for each days races so an examiner can go back to the previous starts to see if there has been any changes in the horse, but there is no better way to insure consistant evaluations of these horses than by having the same person examin the horse each time.

When I have recommended a horse be scratched, I have been sworn at, my skills as a veterinarian belittled, but I would rather have been "proved" wrong about any horse a thousand times than be right once. If I had questions about a horse and let it run any way and have something bad happen it would be just terrible. Most of the horses I have sratched pre-race did not race again, or had limited carreers after they had been scratched, meaning I had found some thing significant and the horse was not safe to race.

It is a TOUGH JOB. Thanks for all the Dr. Baily's out there. I hope racing will look to find enough qualifed veterinarians to perform this most important of jobs a the race track and compenstate these professional men and women at a level that reflects their knowledge and importance to the racing industry.

[Pedigree Ann]

Originally Posted by westcoastinvader

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What really pis*ed me off was the ride Bridgmohan gave to the son of Smarty Jones in the 10th at Gulfstream as I submitted to a whim to get my Santa Anita Derby loss $$ back.

Isn't Bridgmohan purported to be a good jockey??

Cripes....Bridgmohan had no sense of the pace, no apparent internal clock instinct, and erroneously thought he had a horse that didn't need any look at the rail for the entire mile.


What a screwball Bridgomohan was.

He's not riding any of my horses from this point.

Which Bridgmohan? Shaun has been riding first call for Asmussen in the midwest, after having broken onto the scene in New York. Younger kinsman Jermyn has riding in Florida of late.