Algorithms incur injury, off the Kentucky derby trail
The top Triple Crown prospect, Algorithms, is off the Kentucky Derby trail after the X-rays revealed that the 3-year-old son of Bernardini has a fractured splint in his right front leg.
The Todd Pletcher trained Kentucky bred was supposed to take part in the Grade 2 Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth Stakes last weekend, where he was to lock horns with another top Triple Crown prospect, Union Rags, but the race was called off and rightly too,
as the injury was revealed in a press release on 28 February, 2012.
Out of mare Ava Knowsthecode by Cryptoclearance, Algorithms will have to undergo surgery, and for that he will be shipped to Ocala on 29 February, 2012, where the surgery will be performed by Dr. John Madison of Ocala Equine Hospital.
“We are hoping that he only requires a minimal amount of time off, but he is definitely not going to make the Triple Crown,” said trainer Todd Pletcher.
Owned by Jack Wolf’s Starlight Racing Stable, Algorithms is undefeated in his three career starts, as he broke his maiden as a juvenile at Belmont Park on 3 June, 2011, under jockey Javier Castellano going over a distance of five furlongs on the track’s
dirt course.
Algorithms defeated Nonno’s Boy in second and Behemoth in third, while covered the five furlong distance in 57.55 seconds.
He was then shipped to South Florida to race in an allowance/optional claimer at about six and a half furlongs on 16 December, 2011, at Gulfstream Park’s dirt course. He successfully notched up the challenge and downed the likes of Consortium and Seven Kind,
who finished second and third, respectively.
Covering the six and a half furlong distance in 1 minute and 15.51 seconds, Algorithms was being prepared for a stretch in distance and against the champion 2-year-old male, Hansen, for his next start.
Over at Gulfstream Park, Algorithms went for a graded stakes debut race, and made it look easy when he tracked down the rampant pace setter Hansen in the stretch to defeat him by five lengths to win the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes in 1 minute and 36.17 seconds
over a mile.
“It is very disappointing that he will have to miss the spring classics, but we look forward to having him back in late summer or early fall,” Wolf said in the release. “This really is the best long term option for Algorithms.”
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