The undefeated Paladin (Gun Runner) has suffered a non-displaced condylar fracture of his right front ankle and is off the Derby trail, according to a story by David Grening on DRF.com.
Grening wrote that Paladin suffered the injury during a workout at Payson Park Saturday morning.
Paladin has won all four of his starts, including the Grade II Remsen Stakes at two and the Grade II Fasig-Tipton Risen Star Stakes at three. Brown told Grening that the injury was detected after the colt was back at the barn, and that he would have surgery with Dr. Larry Bramlage at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.
“After consulting with Dr. Bramlage from afar after, he looked at the radiographs, he thinks it's going to require two screws,” Brown told Grening. “Good prognosis, but we're going to have to stop on him to address it.”
Brown also told Grening that Tampa Bay third Canaletto (Into Mischief) will also be out until the fall with an injury.
“Tough, tough lows when they hit you,” said co-owner Brook Smith, who owns a piece of each horse, when reached by the TDN. “Still worth the highs, but today has been brutal.”
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