Catch a Glimpse in Good Order After Nassau Scare

Of all the memorable moments Catch a Glimpse has provided the Casse Racing team during her career, the sight of her walking the shedrow without issue May 28 with an empty feed tub in her stall ranks as one of her most phenomenal feats.

Trainer Mark Casse gratefully reported Sunday that Canadian champion Catch a Glimpse had eaten up and was in good order in the hours after and the morning following her collapse during the Nassau Stakes (G2T) at Woodbine May 27. The daughter of City Zip   was tracking in third during the one-mile race when she faltered sharply just past the half-mile mark and was being pulled up by jockey Florent Geroux before falling at the seven-sixteenths pole. 

Catch a Glimpse remained prone on the turf course for a few minutes before getting to her feet and being vanned back to the barn. Casse said that, according to the attending veterinarians, the 2015 Canadian Horse of the Year suffered some heat stroke and bled for the first time in her career.

"When she was laying on the grass, Flo was really upset over it all because he was right there. But the good news is she's great," Casse said Sunday. "She ate up last night and she's a happy camper this morning. She's never bled so that was kind of a strange deal. But the good news is, who would have thought, given the situation at the time, that she would be in good order.

"Everybody we've talked to, the veterinarians say more than likely it was a one-time deal. Just because it happened once doesn't mean it will happen again."

Casse said Catch a Glimpse would now get some time off on the farm after which he and her owners will reevaluate her on-track future.

"She's going to have a few months and eat grass and then we'll go from there," Casse said. "But (whether she races again) has kind of been the last thing on our minds. The only thing we're worried about right now is her health. And it's great this morning."

Owned by Windways Farm, Gary Barber, and Michael James Ambler, Catch a Glimpse was unbeaten in her first eight starts on turf including the 2015 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T)—a win that gave Casse his first ever Breeders' Cup triumph—and the 2016 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1T). The chestnut mare came into the Nassau looking to halt a five-race losing skid, most recently finishing eighth in the April 15 Coolmore Jenny Wiley Stakes (G1T) at Keeneland.

Catch a Glimpse has eight wins from 15 starts with a bankroll of $1,853,615.