UNBRIDLED'S SONG OUT OF PREAKNESS.Byline: Daily News Wire Services A bad foot will keep Unbridled's Song out of the final two legs of racing's Triple Crown. His handlers said Tuesday that the Kentucky Derby Kentucky Derby One of the classic U.S. Thoroughbred horse races. It was established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs track in Louisville, Ky. With the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, it makes up U.S. racing's coveted Triple Crown. favorite, who finished a valiant fifth at Churchill Downs Churchill Downs, Ky.: see Louisville. despite wearing a protective bar shoe on his left hoof hoof, horny epidermal casing at the end of the digits of an ungulate (hoofed) mammal. In the even-toed ungulates, such as swine, deer, and cattle, the hoof is cloven; in the odd-toed ungulates, such as the horse and the rhinoceros, it is solid. , will skip Saturday's Preakness and the June 8 Belmont Stakes. ``He'd probably be fine to run in the Preakness, and he'd probably be favored and he'd probably win,'' Buzz Chace, manager for owner Ernie Paragallo's racing stable, said from the colt's barn at Monmouth Park in New Jersey. ``But in the best interests of the horse, we want to evaluate him further.'' Chace said he expects Unbridled's Song to come back July 6 in the Dwyer at Belmont Park, followed by the Haskell at Monmouth and the Travers at Saratoga. The departure of Unbridled's Song, and the retirement last week of Derby winner Grindstone grindstone or grind common metaphor for industriousness. [Pop. Culture: Misc.] See : Industriousness , leaves the 121st Preakness with 10 horses, though that could change now that the certain betting favorite is out of the picture. The favorite now could be California-bred Cavonnier, the Santa Anita Derby The Santa Anita Derby is an American Grade 1 thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run each April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California and carries a purse of $750,000. winner and the Kentucky Derby runner-up by a nose. The $500,000 Preakness will be simulcast to Hollywood Park at 2:31 p.m. PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT . Five other Pimlico stakes will be simulcast as well Saturday. Nick Zito, who already has Louis Quatorze in the Preakness, reacted to Unbridled's Song's withdrawal by saying he would call Diligence owner George Steinbrenner to ask about entering that horse too. Zito said he would also talk with the owners of Saratoga Dandy about the possibility of entering the colt in the Preakness instead of Saturday's Sir Barton Stakes at Pimlico. Louis Quatorze jockey Pat Day will seek his fifth Preakness victory and his third straight. Day will be replaced aboard Prince of Thieves by Jerry Bailey, who rode Grindstone. Three projected starters in the Preakness - Prince of Thieves, Editor's Note and Victory Speech - come from the barn of trainer D. Wayne Lukas Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935 in Antigo, Wisconsin) is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. , who is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a seventh straight win in a Triple Crown race. Meanwhile, Santa Anita Derby runner-up Alyrob, who finished eighth at Churchill Downs and will skip the Preakness, remained a possible starter in the Belmont, trainer Wally Dollase said. ``In the (Kentucky) Derby, I ran a short horse,'' Dollase said. ``That won't happen again.'' |
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