Juddmonte Farm's Tacitus will not make his next expected start in the March 27 Dubai World Cup, reports the Daily Racing Form. The gray son of Tapit and champion Close Hatches may have banged his hind leg on something and was found to be sore for several days, said Juddmonte general manager Garrett O'Rourke.
“They checked him out and recommended just to walk him for a few weeks. Hopefully nothing serious there, but everything has to go perfect for a race of that caliber,” O'Rourke told DRF.
Tacitus was shipped straight to Dubai from Saudi Arabia, where he finished fifth, beaten over 15 lengths in the Saudi Cup on Feb. 20. The Bill Mott trainee also missed last year's edition of the Dubai World Cup after shipping to the UAE, when the races were cancelled due to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
The big gray's record currently stands at 4-4-3 from 16 starts for earnings of $3.7 million.
Read more at the Daily Racing Form.
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