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Get Her Number will miss Breeders’ Cup with injury
ARCADIA, Calif. – Get Her Number, winner of the Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes on Sept. 26 at Santa Anita, will miss the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Nov. 6 at Keeneland because of a minor injury, trainer Peter Miller said Sunday.
“He’s got a little bit of bone bruising, and we’ll back off on him,” Miller said. “He won’t run again until next year.”
Owned by Gary Barber, Get Her Number has won 2 of 3 starts and earned $219,000. By Dialed In, Get Her Number won his debut in a maiden special weight race at five furlongs on turf Aug. 14 at Del Mar and was fourth, by a length, in his stakes debut in the Del Mar Juvenile Turf at a mile on Sept. 7.
In the American Pharoah Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on dirt, Get Her Number was always near the front and won by three-quarters of a length over Rombauer, a candidate for the BC Juvenile. Spielberg, who finished third in the American Pharoah, also is a probable starter in the BC Juvenile.
Get Her Number earned a fees-paid berth to the BC Juvenile with the win in the American Pharoah.
Miller has four candidates for Breeders’ Cup races, including leading contender C Z Rocket in the Sprint, the highly regarded Mo Forza in the Mile, Wyfire in the Juvenile Turf Sprint, and Ebeko for the Juvenile Turf.
Miller said Wyfire is not a certain runner in the Juvenile Turf Sprint.
“We may take a pass on that,” he said.
The stable has high hopes for Superman Shaq, winner of a maiden special weight race for 2-year-olds by 3 3/4 lengths at 5 1/2 furlongs on Sept. 6 at Del Mar in his second start. Owned by Barber, Superman Shaq is under consideration for the $98,000 Street Sense Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on Sunday at Churchill Downs, opening day of the track’s autumn meeting.
“We’ll try to develop him and see if he wants to go longer,” Miller said.
Trainers, jockeys fined
Trainers Carla Gaines and Adam Kitchingman have been fined $500 for recent medication violations, and jockeys Eswan Flores and Mario Gutierrez received lesser financial penalties for whip violations, according to rulings published over the weekend by Santa Anita stewards.
Gaines trains Coalinga Road, who tested positive for the analgesic phenylbutazone after a win in the second race Sept. 4 at Del Mar. Bute, as it is frequently called, is a commonly used medication, but cannot be administered within 48 hours of a race following rule changes enacted by the California Horse Racing
Board in the last year.
Coalinga Road won a maiden special weight race for California-breds as the 9-5 second choice.
Kitchingman trains Adens Dream, who tested positive for methylprednisolone, an anti-inflammatory that is not permitted to appear in post-race tests. Adens Dream finished fifth in the sixth race Aug. 21 at Del Mar.
Gutierrez was fined $200 for using his whip more than six times on Going to Vegas, the second-place finisher in the Grade 3 Autumn Miss Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at a mile on turf Saturday. Going to Vegas, a 16-1 outsider, contended for the lead in the stretch and was beaten a neck by 7-10 Warren’s Showtime.
Under rules enacted by the racing board Oct. 1, jockeys in California are restricted to no more than six strikes with a whip in a race and must do so in an under-handed motion. Gutierrez was cited for his second offense in the last 60 days on
Going to Vegas.
Flores was fined $100 for the same infraction on Vegas Moon, who finished seventh of nine in a $50,000 claimer for maidens in the eighth race Oct. 12.
Final week for Santa Anita
Santa Anita concludes its five-week autumn meeting with a three-day racing weekend from Friday through Sunday. Del Mar opens its autumn meeting Oct. 31.
The final weekend of the Santa Anita meeting is highlighted by Saturday’s Grade 3 Sen. Ken Maddy Stakes for fillies and mares at 5 1/2 furlongs on turf and Sunday’s Grade 2 Goldikova Stakes for fillies and mares at a mile on turf.
Maxim Rate and Lady Prancealot, graded stakes winners who were second and third in the Grade 1 Rodeo Drive Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/4 miles on turf Sept. 26, are among the 18 nominees to the $200,000 Goldikova.