Month: June 2023

Straight No Chaser Sidelined After PET Scan Detects ‘Area Of Concern’

A recent PET scan at Santa Anita revealed an “area of concern” in the left front fetlock of graded-stakes winner Straight No Chaser, trainer Dan Blacker said Thursday. The 4-year-old Speightster colt will be sent to the farm for a 90-day break.

Straight No Chaser emerged this winter and spring as a top sprinter for owner My Racehorse. After running third in the Grade 3 Palos Verdes at Santa Anita Feb. 5 in his seasonal bow, Straight No Chaser was sent to Oaklawn Park where he romped by 7 ¼ lengths in a six-furlong allowance race. He then went to Pimlico for the G3 Maryland Sprint on the Preakness Stakes undercard May 20 where he again aired, this time by 7 ½ lengths.

Straight No Chaser had not worked since the Maryland Sprint. Blacker said the 4-year-old colt recently underwent a medical examination after an undisclosed party agreed to purchase a minority interest in the colt.

“It was a routine pre-purchase exam. As part of it they did a PET scan and they found an area of concern,” Blacker said. “It's mild. The horse is sound. But nevertheless, we thought it would be a good time to give him a break.”

Blacker later added the “area of concern” was in Straight No Chaser's left front fetlock.

Straight No Chaser will get the summer off before returning to training later this year.

“We'll probably give him 90 days at the farm and bring him back after Del Mar,” Blacker said. “He won't run again until around Christmas time.”

Straight No Chaser was a $110,000 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic auction purchase as a 2-year-old by My Racehorse. He has earned $245,800 with a record of 4-0-1 in seven starts.

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Baffert Runners Return To Santa Anita In Good Order

Both 'TDN Rising Star' Arabian Lion (Justify), winner of the GI Woody Stephens S. and National Treasure (Quality Road), the GI Preakness winner who faded to sixth after setting the pace in the GI Belmont S., were back at Santa Anita and doing well after competing on last Saturday's Belmont Stakes card at Belmont Park according to trainer Bob Baffert. Prospective next starts have not been named for either runner.

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Son Of Aclaim A New TDN Rising Star

There must be something in the air at Haydock this month as Opulence Thoroughbreds and Teme Valley's newcomer Purosangue (GB) (Aclaim {Ire}–Avon Breeze {GB}, by Avonbridge {GB}) became the second TDN Rising Star on Thursday's evening fixture and the third in the last three meetings at the Merseyside venue. Unleashed by Andrew Balding having brought enough attention at April's Goffs UK Breeze-Up Sale to fetch £125,000, the 5-1 shot proved a handful for Ray Dawson going to post and in the early stages before establishing a lead before halfway in the five-furlong British Stallion Studs EBF Novice S.

When Dawson got serious a furlong out, the relative of the Listed Rose Bowl S. winner Saigon (GB) (Royal Applause {GB}) showed his true mettle to surge to a four-length success from the Karl Burke-trained Instant Recall (GB) (Showcasing {GB}), with half a length back to All Is Fair (Ire) (Soldier's Call {GB}) from the David Loughnane stable. “It's a shame that Royal Ascot is next week,” Dawson said of Aclaim's second TDN Rising Star, after Cachet (Ire) who achieved fame as last year's G1 1000 Guineas heroine.

Pedigree Notes
The dam Avon Breeze may not have made it to black-type level, but she won 10 of her 52 starts in the North of England from five to six furlongs and achieved an official rating of 92. Purosangue is only her second runner, while her yearling colt by Eqtidaar (Ire) was sold for 22,000gns to Hegarty Bloodstock at the Tatts December Foal Sale. The family's most notable performers under the first three dams are the aforementioned Saigon, who was also runner-up in the G3 Horris Hill S. and third in the G2 Mill Reef S., and Tabaret (GB) (Bertolini) who took the Listed Roses S. and was third in the Listed Windsor Castle S.

3rd-Haydock, £9,999, Novice, 6-15, 2yo, 5fT, 1:00.06, g/f.
PUROSANGUE (GB), c, 2, by Aclaim (Ire)
     1st Dam: Avon Breeze (GB), by Avonbridge (GB)
     2nd Dam: African Breeze (GB), by Atraf (GB)
     3rd Dam: Luanshya (GB), by First Trump (GB)
(£35,000 Ylg '22 GOFFUK; £125,000 2yo '23 GOUKB). Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $6,837. O-Opulence Thoroughbreds & Teme Valley; B-Hellwood Stud Farm & R C Dollar (GB); T-Andrew Balding. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Straight No Chaser Sidelined With ‘Area of Concern’

A recent PET scan at Santa Anita revealed an “area of concern” in the left front fetlock of graded-stakes winner Straight No Chaser (Speightster), trainer Dan Blacker said Thursday. The 4-year-old colt will be sent to the farm for a 90-day break.

He was last seen at Pimlico for the GIII Maryland Sprint on the Preakness S. undercard May 20 where he won by an impressive 7 1/2 lengths.

Straight No Chaser had not worked since the Maryland Sprint. Blacker said the 4-year-old Speightster colt recently underwent a medical examination after an undisclosed party agreed to purchase a minority interest in the colt.

“It was a routine pre-purchase exam. As part of it they did a PET scan and they found an area of concern,” Blacker said. “It's mild. The horse is sound. But nevertheless, we thought it would be a good time to give him a break.”

Straight No Chaser will get the summer off before returning to training later this year.

“We'll probably give him 90 days at the farm and bring him back after Del Mar,” Blacker said. “He won't run again until around Christmas time.”

 

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