2023-05-06 19:38:43
Trainer Todd Pletcher featured the top seed for the Kentucky Derby (G1)the foal Forte. The Kentucky Racing Commission ordered his retirement this Saturday morning with less than twelve hours left to participate in the first of the Triple Crown.
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An eight-time Eclipse Award winner, Pletcher told the media about what happened to the 2022 two-year-old champion: “It’s a tough break, I feel terrible for Mike Repole, their families and their teams,” Pletcher said. “I’m not sure that in other years this would have been a problem but this time it was”, referring to the problem that occurred with the death of the four horses at the Churchill Downs facilities the days before the Derby, and how strict the rules are. Kentucky authorities in taking care of the show.
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“At the end of the day, after training this morning, the regular vets didn’t feel like the horse was at the point where he felt comfortable,” Pletcher said. History repeats itself for him because in 2011 he lived the same thing with his pensioner Uncle Mo.
The hardest adversity often leads to the greatest moments of your life. Keep fighting, keep going, never surrender, never give up, never stop, keep grinding. The toughest situations build the strongest people & horses in the end.
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— Repole Stable (@RepoleStable) May 6, 2023
However, Pletcher has two trainees left in the race and one of them takes over the role of the first favourite. Is about Tapit Trice, quoted 5-1 in bets. the other is Kingsbarns.
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