Racehorse It’s Tricky Retired due to Condylar Fracture

The 4-year-old filly sustained the beginnings of a condylar fracture in her right hind leg during a workout.
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Godolphin Racing’s multiple grade I winner It’s Tricky has been retired with an injury to her right hind leg, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said Oct. 20.

The 4-year-old Mineshaft filly sustained the beginnings of a condylar fracture (a fracture of the condyle–the bottom or distal end of the cannon bone that fits into the fetlock joint) in the right hind during a workout Oct. 18 as she prepared for the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic next month at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif.

"She worked well and the next morning when we went to look at her, she had heat and inflammation in her right hind ankle," said McLaughlin in a New York Racing Association release. "We had it X rayed (radiographed), and forwarded the X rays to Dr. Larry Bramlage (DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVS), and both he and Dr. Kristian Rhein (DVM), who did the X rays, agreed it was the beginning of a condylar fracture. No surgery will be required. We just have to stop on her and at this point, she’ll go on to her new career as a mother."

First, second, or third in all but one of her 14 career starts, It’s Tricky scored grade I wins in last year’s TVG Acorn Stakes and the TVG Coaching Club American Oaks and in this year’s Ogden Phipps Handicap. Last year, she finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic and the TVG Alabama Stakes, and was an Eclipse Award finalist

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