Winner of Barbaro Stakes Injured on Oaks Day
Two years after Barbaro’s catastrophic breakdown, trainer Michael Matz watched another one of his colts break down in a race at Churchill Downs on Friday.
Chelokee, a 4-year-old colt, took a misstep on the sloppy track and fractured his
- Topics: Article, Fractures, Thoroughbred Racing
Two years after Barbaro’s catastrophic breakdown, trainer Michael Matz watched another one of his colts break down in a race at Churchill Downs on Friday.
Chelokee, a 4-year-old colt, took a misstep on the sloppy track and fractured his right front leg, Larry Bramlage, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, said. The horse was running in fourth place over a sloppy track when he was injured at the top of the stretch of the Alysheba.
Jockey Ramon Dominguez was thrown from the horse, but jumped back up and apparently was uninjured.
Chelokee won the Barbaro Stakes last year at Pimlico — a race renamed in honor of 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, who shattered his right hind leg in the Preakness and was euthanized eight months later
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