All goes well for Weemissfrankie after her surgery
Weemissfrankie came out of her nondisplaced condylar fracture surgery fine and it all went well for trainer Peter Eurton. The 2-year-old filly, Weemissfrankie, incurred the injury in her fourth place finish at Hollywood Park’s cushion track when she was
competing in the Grade 1 Hollywood Starlet after initiating the race with a bad stumble.
The New York bred daughter of Sunriver, out of mare Starinthemeadow by Meadowlake, Weemissfrankie will be sidelined for 4 months after her surgery. The operation was conducted on 11 December, 2011, by prominent veterinarian Dr. C. Wayne McIlwraith at an
equine clinic in Cypress, Calif., near Los Alamitos Racecourse.
It was done on the right foreleg to stabiliz Weemissfrankie’s injury. “The surgery went very well,” Eurton said Sunday evening. “The prognosis is excellent. He gave her a four-month prognosis. He said, ‘Do you have any plans for the [Kentucky] Oaks?”
Peter Eurton has no plans to rush Weemissfrankie, and her connections will probably wait till the Del Mar season goes underway next year. They will not even take into account the prep races for Kentucky Oaks or the big race itself.
They will most definitely think of racing her in the mid summer season of the 2012 season. “I’m optimistic we can have her for Del Mar,” he said of the summertime meeting.
Immediate plans for Weemissfrankie are to keep her at her stable for 30 to 45 days and then the juvenile filly will be sent to a local farm for recovery time.
It is still a wondering aspect of the injury that whether Weemissfrankie incurred it during the stmble at the start of the Grade 1 Hollywood Starlet, where she was sent off as the 4 to 5 favourite to win the race.
If that was the case then Weemissfrankie did well on three legs, as she was last of six in the six furlong event, but grinded out a champions performance and her never say never attitude made her finish at fourth and closed to finish 2 3/4 lengths behind
race winner Killer Graces.
“She wasn’t reaching out completely all the way down the lane,” he said. “Who knows? I’m glad she made it around the track before anything really bad happened.”
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