Adare Manor (Ernie Belmonte/Past The Wire)
Del Mar Press Release/Edited
DEL MAR, Calif.— It started as a routine gallop. Get some air in her, get her legs under her. It ended in disappointment, for her owner Michael Lund Petersen, her trainer Bob Baffert and the entire barn and race fans across the country. Adare Manor has been scratched from the G1 FanDuel Pacific Classic this Saturday at Del Mar.
“She tied up a little bit after a gallop yesterday (Thursday),” Baffert says. “Today we looked at her and she’s still a little tied. I don’t feel like she’s a hundred percent for tomorrow and she has to be on her game to run tomorrow so we’re just going to have to sit it out.”
Tying up is not uncommon behavior for horses. It’s nothing like colic. It’s something that happens when a horse gets nervous or uncomfortable. It’s painful, uncontrollable muscle contractions similar to a muscle cramp in humans. The cramping occurs in the large muscles of the back, the hindquarters and sometimes the shoulders during exercise. The remedy is to rub the horse, provide plenty of water and remove all grain and feed and provide only hay or grass.
“It’s disappointing but it’s part of horse racing,” Baffert notes. “We have to take care of our superstars.”
While her absence takes some of the luster out of the race, it certainly makes it an interesting race for the bettors. Now instead of having a solid favorite, the Pacific Classic becomes a wide-open affair as reflected by the new morning line odds.
Here’s the field from the rail with the jockeys and the new morning line odds: Il Miracolo (3-1); There Goes Harvard (Hector I. Berrios, 10-1); Dr. Venkman (Antonio Fresu, 8/5); Reincarnate (Kazushi Kimura, 5-1); Katonah (Tiago Pereira, 6-1); Full Serrano (Reylu Gutierrez, 8-1); Adare Manor (scratched); None Above the Law (Jeremy Laprida, 20-1) and Mixto (Kyle Frey, 15-1).
