On a weekend when the horse racing industry is particularly concerned about safety, a horse in the final race on the Breeders' Cup Friday card had to be vanned off due to an unspecified injury.
Three-year-old gelding Bus Buzz took a rail trip to an early lead in Santa Anita Park's tenth race, an allowance optional claimer. He bobbled at the start under jockey Edwin Maldonado, and pulled up sharply at the three-sixteenths pole. The Steve Knapp trainee had a splint applied to his left foreleg and was vanned off for further evaluation, according to the Daily Racing Form's David Grening.
The Blood-Horse later reported that Bus Buzz is back in Knapp's barn and is scheduled for surgery on Sunday. A statement from 1/ST Racing to the publication did not specify the nature of Bus Buzz's injury.
In the previous race, Mountain Bear, the runner-up in the G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf was pulled up after the gallop-out and was later found to have a non-displaced condylar fracture. He is expected to make a full recovery.
Bus Buzz is owned by breeder Terry Lovingier, with Thomas Halasz and Amanda Navarro. He came to Friday's race having placed second in an allowance optional claiming contest at Santa Anita on Oct. 1, and has a win in the Real Good Deal Stakes earlier this year to his credit, as well as a runner-up finish in the Echo Eddie earlier this year. He is the son of Stay Thirsty and Bring The Heat mare Lost Bus.
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