Ironicus to Miss Breeders' Cup With Fracture
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Ironicus
Ironicus, record-setting winner of the Sept. 7 Bernard Baruch Handicap (gr. IIT), is at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital near Lexington to repair a minor fracture in the cannon bone of his right foreleg, trainer Shug McGaughey said Sept. 24.
The injury discovered in the 4-year-old son of Distorted Humor will cause him to miss a planned run in the Breeders' Cup Mile (gr. IT).
"I didn't like the way he walked there a couple days—he'd been training until last Sunday—and I'm glad we found it," McGaughey said. "With that type of injury, it's very minor, not displaced. He was maybe a half to one off.
"I just saw him walking a little bit funny one morning and didn't train him that afternoon... The first picture didn't show anything, and (Doctor Larry) Bramlage called me back and said to take some others, and then it showed up and we made arrangements to send him down there."
According to McGaughey, Ironicus should return to training for breeder Stuart Janney III for a campaign next year.
"It's a one-screw type of deal and I'm sure it'll be about 60 days to heal up and then we'll start going again from there," he said.