Mark Casse-trained Get Smokin, a multiple graded stakes-winning 6-year-old gelding by Get Stormy, will be scratched from Saturday's Grade 1, $4 million Longines Breeders' Cup Turf. Ironhorse Racing Stable, who has campaigned Get Smokin in partnership with BlackRidge Stables, Saratoga Seven Racing Partners, and T-N-T Equine Holdings, posted on the X social media site the following:
“Unfortunately, Get Smokin had a very minor setback in his preparation for the Breeders' Cup Turf and Mark Casse and the owners have made the decision to scratch him. We will let him have a winter break and prepare for a 2024 campaign.”
Get Smokin was coming off a front-running victory in the G2, $1.7 million FanDuel Turf Cup Stakes at Kentucky Downs on Sept. 9. The win was his sixth from 27 lifetime starts. He previously won the G2 Hill Prince in 2020 and the G3 Tampa Bay Stakes in 2021.
A 30-1 longshot on the morning line for the star-studded Turf, Get Smokin was to be ridden by Fernando De La Cruz.
Get Smokin was bred in Kentucky by Hurstland Farm and James Greene Jr.
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