Filly and Injuries Alter Preakness Line-up
I Want Revenge Injury Career Threatening, Friesan Fire Unconfirmed
May 10, 2009
I Want Revenge, the morning line Kentucky Derby favorite who couldn't post up on Derby day, and excellent filly Rachel Alexandra will both affect the final line-up for the running of the second jewel of the American Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes, set for May 16 at Baltimore, Maryland's Pimlico Race Course.
Rachel Alexandra is the first Kentucky Derby Oaks winner pointed to the Preakness Stakes. She won that contest by over 20 lengths. She and Borel are unbeaten in five trips.
I Want Revenge Won't Be In Preakness
I Want Revenge has been diagnosed with oblique sesamoidean ligament damage in his right front leg.
The colt under-went an MRI and its results were called "...not good news" by veterinarian Foster Northrup. At the least, the injury is career-threatening, Northrup reported.
D.V.M. Larry Bramlage, a long-time Derby day figure, was called in to observe I Want Revenge's case, the horse's owners told interviewers, to thwart any questions about I Want Revenge's Derby day scratch being legitimate. Bramlage commended the decision to scratch the lame colt.
The Stephen Got Even--Meguial (ARG), by Roy colt is under treatment at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital at Lexington.
Friesan Fire and Rachel Alexandra Remain Unconfirmed
Along with filly Rachel Alexandra, Kentucky Derby post time favorite Friesan Fire is on the latest preliminary list for the Preakness. Both graded stakes winners are currently listed as unconfirmed.
Rachel Alexandra was not a Triple Crown race nominee. She would have to be supplemented to the Preakness Stakes for $100,000. However, she could not bump a nominated entry, and the race is limited to fourteen horses. Presently, there are eleven confirmed entrants.
Friesan Fire ran eighteenth in the Derby after being clipped coming out of the gate.
Current Preakness Stakes Line-up
- Big Drama --- trainer, David Fawkes; jockey Eibar Coa ?? ----- finished 1st in Swale Stakes (G2) after a disqualification of the winner
- Friesan Fire --- Larry Jones--Gabriel Saez ----- 18th in Kentucky Derby (G1)
- Flying Private --- D. Wayne Lukas--John Velazquez ----- 19th in Kentucky Derby
- General Quarters --- Mark Miller--Julien Leparoux ----- 10th in Kentucky Derby
- Hull --- Dale Romans--Miguel Mena ----- 2nd in Derby Trial Stakes (G3)
- Mine That Bird --- Bennie Woolley Jr.--?? ----- 1st in Kentucky Derby
- Musket Man --- Derek Ryan--Eibar Coa ?? ----- 3rd in Kentucky Derby
- Papa Clem --- Gary Stute--Rafael Bejarano ----- 4th in Kentucky Derby
- Pioneerof The Nile --- Bob Baffert--Garrett Gomez ----- 2nd in Kentucky Derby
- Rachel Alexandra --- Steve Asmussen--Calvin Borel ----- 1st in Kentucky Oaks (G1)
- Take the Points --- Todd Pletcher--Edgar Prado ----- 4th in Santa Anita Derby (G1)
- Terrain --- Albert Stall Jr.--?? ----- 4th in Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G1)
- Tone It Down --- William Komlo--Kent Desormeaux ----- 3rd in Federico Tesio Stakes
West Side Bernie Purchased by Godolphin
Ninth in the Kentucky Derby and second in the Wood Memorial , West Side Bernie has been sold to Godolphin Racing by owners George and Lori Hall. West Side Bernie will have several more races in the United States before he is shipped to the UAE for winter racing in Dubai.
A Bernstein--Time Honored colt, West Side Bernie is a maternal grandson of Gilded Time.
