Green Light Go Euthanized Following Work at Belmont

Stronach Stables' homebred Green Light Go  was euthanized the morning of April 22 from a fractured sesamoid in his right foreleg sustained in a workout, as first reported by the Daily Racing Form's David Grening. Trainer Jimmy Jerkens confirmed to BloodHorse that the 5-year-old did not fall during the breeze but pulled up lame and was vanned off the track. X-rays taken back at the barn later revealed "unsalvageable damage."

In his 2022 campaign, Green Light Go appeared to have regained the form that saw him capture the Saratoga Special Stakes (G2) and place in the Champagne Stakes (G1) as a juvenile. After demolishing an allowance optional claimer field by nine lengths Jan. 13 at Aqueduct Racetrack, he notched a front-running score in the Feb. 26 Stymie Stakes, his first stakes win since 2019.

The son of Hard Spun   most recently finished fourth in the April 9 Carter Handicap (G1) behind Speaker's Corner . His connections had the one-mile May 7 Westchester Stakes (G3) at Belmont Park as his next target.

"We are heartbroken," Jerkens said to BloodHorse via text. "He was the star of the barn."

Green Light Go had accumulated earnings of $545,102 in his 14-start career.

Bred in Kentucky, he was out of the stakes-winning Pleasantly Perfect mare Light Green, who currently has a yearling full brother to Green Light Go.