HASKIN: Expect Animal Kingdom status news today..

[Rootdog1]

Terrbile. I was looking forward to the haskell.

[HaloWishingwell]

Something tells me Maragh won't be riding for Team Valor or Graham Mation anytime soon.

[Alan07]

Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom exited Saturday's Belmont Stakes with an undisclosed injury. Details of the injury and how long the 3-year-old colt will be out of action will be revealed later Thursday.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/mo...s_unknown.html

[trackrat59]

No surprise considering what happened at the start of the Belmont. Thank goodness nothing catastrophic happened to AK or JV during the race.

I hope AK will be 100% in the long run. I think AK is a great horse. All three of his TC races showed me he's got talent and determination. I agree with Steve Davidowitz's comments from yesterday's show.

This news suks.

[Merlinsky]

His stumble reminded me of Afleet Alex's who may've gone on to win the Belmont but I believe they suspected the Preakness incident led to the injury that eventually forced his retirement. Maybe discovering it before AK runs again means he won't have had a chance to make it worse, and his career will continue.

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

His stumble reminded me of Afleet Alex's who may've gone on to win the Belmont but I believe they suspected the Preakness incident led to the injury that eventually forced his retirement. Maybe discovering it before AK runs again means he won't have had a chance to make it worse, and his career will continue.

Afleet Alex did run and win the Belmont.

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

Afleet Alex did run and win the Belmont.

I know that. The "may've" wasn't to illustrate doubt about whether he did or did not. It's to say that even though he did win the Belmont, it was with the Preakness stumble injury beginning to fester, and he won the Belmont in spite of it. Going 1 1/2 miles couldn't have helped. I definitely read more than one piece that had the owners believing the retirement injury came from the stumble. If they'd found anything post-Preakness, he wouldn't have necessarily gone in the Belmont and maybe we have him running later into the season without the early retirement. Then again they did get him a second classic win so it's hard to go too far into the 'what if' on that one.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

His stumble reminded me of Afleet Alex's who may've gone on to win the Belmont but I believe they suspected the Preakness incident led to the injury that eventually forced his retirement. Maybe discovering it before AK runs again means he won't have had a chance to make it worse, and his career will continue.

That's quite a diagnosis doctor.

[RolloTomasi]

Afleet Alex's arthritic ankle was likely the result of his unorthodox, yet much ballyhooed, "twice a day" training regimen, as a opposed to a single incident like the stumble.

If any one thing sent him to the shed with a bullet, it was the ridiculous 5f in :59+ he endured in his first work back, a mere 60 days after having a screw inserted in his cannon bone.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

His stumble reminded me of Afleet Alex's who may've gone on to win the Belmont but I believe they suspected the Preakness incident led to the injury that eventually forced his retirement. Maybe discovering it before AK runs again means he won't have had a chance to make it worse, and his career will continue.

Now don't go demonstrating common sense and logic here, you'll just be mocked by the local horse racing intelligensia

[Slewbopper]

Originally Posted by trackrat59

No surprise considering what happened at the start of the Belmont. Thank goodness nothing catastrophic happened to AK or JV during the race.

I hope AK will be 100% in the long run. I think AK is a great horse. All three of his TC races showed me he's got talent and determination. I agree with Steve Davidowitz's comments from yesterday's show.

This news suks.

Mine That Bird with balls

[trackrat59]

Originally Posted by Slewbopper

Mine That Bird with balls

Betcha not.

[slotdirt]

Originally Posted by Slewbopper

Mine That Bird with balls

I made the Mine that Bird - Animal Kingdom comparison with a couple friends recently. Their respective runs in the Triple Crown races are strikingly similar. That being said, I have to think Animal Kingdom is a more talented animal than Mine that Bird and is going to go on to win some nice races somewhere provided he stays healthy.

Then again, maybe he's the third Derby winner in a row to make the Derby his last career win?

[Cannon Shell]

Can someone tell Joe Drape about this? He will be so sad to find out a non-steroided up, relatively slow, foreign influenced bred horse like AK can actually be injured.

This never would have happened if Lasix were banned....