California Chrome's Sis Scratched From Debut

Hope's Love, a full sister to 2014 Horse of the Year California Chrome, was scheduled to make her career debut May 15 at Golden Gate Fields, but will be scratched, trainer Steve Sherman said May 13.



"Unfortunately she got sick and we're going to have to scratch her," said Sherman, the son of California Chrome's trainer, Art Sherman. "It's nothing serious—just a little virus. It was just enough to set us back and cause us to miss the race. We'll point her for the next one (a race for 2-year-old fillies) on June 13."



Hope's Love was the 8-5 morning-line favorite in Friday's fifth race, a 4 1/2-furlong maiden special weight event that attracted an overflow field of 14 entrants (only 10 will start, as four are on the also-eligible list). Hope's Love had been working well for her debut—she drilled four furlongs in a bullet :47 flat May 3 at Golden Gate—before getting sick.



Steve Coburn and Perry Martin, owners and breeders of California Chrome, also bred and own Hope's Love. A chestnut filly, Hope's Love is by Lucky Pulpit   and out of the Not For Love   mare Love the Chase.