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Posted on Monday, August 28th, 2006
A day after finishing second to Bernardini in the $1 million Travers Stakes, Bluegrass Cat retires with a fractured right hind pastern bone, WinStar farm president Doug Cauthen announced on Sunday.
Following Saturday’s race at Saratoga, radiographs taken discovered the 3-year-old Bluegrass Cat to be significantly lame in his right hind leg. The injury is not considered life-threatening.
The runner-up to Barbaro in the Kentucky Derby and to Jazil in the Belmont Stakes, Bluegrass Cat finished 7 1/2 lengths behind Bernardini on Saturday. He entered Saturday’s race off an impressive win in the Haskell Invitational three weeks earlier.
A son of Storm Cat, Bluegrass has five wins, four seconds and earnings of $1,756,280 in 11 career starts.
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