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Originally Posted by DaTruth
What caused Dryfly to beat a hasty retreat after 6f?
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This couldn't have helped...
Fracture. Out till fall.
Injured Dryfly sidelined until fall
By Mary Rampellini
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Dryfly is off the Arkansas Derby trail. Trainer Lynn Whiting said Tuesday the beginning of a stress fracture was diagnosed in the horse's left knee following his ninth-place finish in the Grade 3, $250,000 Southwest at Oaklawn last Saturday.
Dryfly was the race's second choice off his sharp score in last month's $100,000 Smarty Jones. He stalked at hot pace into the final turn of the Southwest, but retreated in the later stages. Whiting said the horse emerged from the race with pressure in the upper joint of his knee.
"It's foreign to him," Whiting said. "It's not something that's ever been there before. It kind of explains his race to you."