Cigar Street out for the summer with a hair line fracture
Steve Margolis trained impressive maiden winner, Cigar Street will miss the rest of the summer of racing due to a hairline fracture he incurred in his left hind cannon bone. Cigar Street will have a s***w inserted, when he undergoes a surgery this weekend.
Lucky for Cigar Street, the injury was detected early, thus the prognosis looks good for a return.
The dark bay 3-year-old colt was pointed toward the Grade 2, $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park on 12 May, 2012, and for that Steve Margolis had planned a scheduled workout for the son of Street Sense.
The expected workout was to take place at Churchill Downs on 5 May, 2012, but the session was cancelled because of wet conditions on the track, hence the colt was relegated to walk the shed row.
It was there when Margolis saw a filling in his hind leg, and the trainer called for a bone scan which made it clear that the colt has a hair line fracture.
“We caught it early,” Margolis said. “They’ll put a s***w in and we’ll give it time to heal. They usually come back stronger. He’s a very nice colt, hopefully, we’ll have him for the fall and as a 4-year-old next year.”
Jake Ballis’s Cigar Street is bred in Kentucky, and the colt debuted his racing career at Fair Grounds Race Course with a six furlong sprint in his maiden special weight race.
Cigar Street was unsuccessful in his first try, as he finished a distant fifth on 3 February, 2012, to winner Bourbon Courage, who covered the distance in 1 minute and 9.28 seconds.
It was probably on the cards that Cigar Street will bounce back in his next race, but nobody thought that he will take the race by a staggering margin of 13 ¾ lengths over a distance of 1 1/16 miles at Fair Grounds Race Course on 10 March, 2012.
His next target was the Grade 2, $1 million Louisiana Derby at about 1 1/8 miles where he was beaten in fourth by a small margin of 2 lengths to winner, Hero of Order.
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