Late Saturday morning, Frac Daddy was scratched from the $1 million TVG Pacific Classic due to a tendon injury. Exactly how the injury occurred remained something of a mystery a day later.
“Honestly, we don’t really know what happened,” said Blake Heap, in charge of the preparations here for Kentucky-based trainer Ken McPeek. “We know he was fine two days ago. Then (Friday night) the guys who live here heard some banging and thrashing and when they got near (the stall) they saw the webbing was moving.
“The horse was back in the corner of the stall when they got there, but we think he got his leg up over the webbing.”
A tendon in the left front leg that had been the desired “cold and tight,” earlier was warm and swollen. A preliminary scan of the injury was done here. Results are pending. Frac Daddy, a son of Scat Daddy owned by the Magic City Thoroughbred Partners of Carter Stewart of Billings, Mont., and minority partner Ken Schlenker, will be shipped to Kentucky on Monday for further tests and determination of treatment. McPeek said such an injury could be career threatening and, if so, Frac Daddy would stand at stud in Kentucky.
Source: Del Mar
