| Danzig |
03-15-2007 05:17 AM |
from drf:
King's Drama was pulled up on the backstretch of Saturday's Mervin Muniz Handicap, a rare blemish on what has been an excellent Fair Grounds meet for trainer Bobby Frankel.
King's Drama, the favorite in the Muniz, was taken out of the race by Edgar Prado about a half-mile from the finish, but didn't appear to have suffered any serious injury. Frankel said Tuesday that King's Drama might have injured a tendon sheath, but that the horse was "jogging sound," and would undergo further evaluation once he returned to California.
Frankel won two allowance races on Saturday's card, one with Piety, a horse he owns himself, the other with Dubai Gold, who looked like a horse to watch after easily beating second-level allowance horses in his first turf start. Frankel said Dubai Gold would come back in a Keeneland allowance race.
On Monday, the Frankel barn sent out its second debut winner of the meet, a 3-year-old named Mast Track - another horse Frankel himself owns - who impressively won a turf sprint by three lengths. Though the Frankel barn, overseen by Scott Hansen, has fewer starters than any other among the top 20 at the Fair Grounds meet, Frankel is 12th in the trainer standings with 12 victories - not bad for a winter satellite operation.
"It's been an excellent meet so far," Frankel said. "Scott's doing a good job down there."
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