International Star - Scratched

[Lemon Drop Husker]

DRF reporting that International Star is a late scratch this morning.

[infrontby1]

Do we know yet if C. Nakatani will ride the AE that drew in?

He's listed on a full card of races today at Santa Anita.

[Psychotic Parakeet]

Well, there goes one of my bottom fillers for my trifecta.

[Spiderman]

Do we know yet if C. Nakatani will ride the AE that drew in?

He's listed on a full card of races today at Santa Anita.
Tale of Verve is scratched.

[FantasticDan]

Tale of Verve is scratched.He's referring to Frammento, and yes, Nakatani will be on board. :cool:

[Shelby]

Ramsey's scratched ALL their horses. What happened???

[Tall One]

I'll be a son of a bitch..


Shelby--once Star didn't clear the vets, Ramsey scratched all his horses today. I'm guessing in good sportsmanship and all.. :confused:

[Shelby]

Crap. I was using Granny's Kitten and Stephanie's Kitten for sure.


Man, Tall One, I hope that's not true.....why would they waste all the time and money only to scratch all of these good horses? Not to mention the unfairness to the jockeys.......

[Tall One]

That's the word on the twitter machine, Shelby. My goodness.


Marcus Hersh ‏@DRFHersh · 17m17 minutes ago

Waiting here at barn to get details but think International Star did not pass the vet. That could have triggered other Ramsey scratches.

[salty]

You have to be kidding me.

:bang:

[WP1981]

Ramsey's scratched ALL their horses. What happened???

In the bloodhorse comments section someone states they knew Thursday that they were going to scratch, Churchill got pissed this morning so Ramsay yanked the rest.

Whether that is true or not I don't know.

[FantasticDan]

DRF's David Grening asked Ramsey why Stephanie's Kitten also scratched, Ramsey declined comment.

[Robert Goren]

It used to be when a trainer scratched all their runners for a day, it meant they got a heads up that they were not going pass the drug test. I am not sure if that would be case with this caliber of horses, but I would not be too quick to rule it out. No Foul, No Suspension.

[Shelby]

I'm sorry. I was wrong when I said they scratched them all.

Reach For a Kitten, Luck of the Kitten, and Thank You Marylou are still running. (so far)

Scratches:
RACE 6 (1:19p.m.) - 24th running of the $250,000-added American Turf Presented by Ram! Trucks (GII) | $1 Million Twinspires.com Guaranteed Derby Day $2 minimum Pick Six Begins

SCRATCH #3 Granny's Kitten

RACE 10 (4:44 p.m.) - 29th running of the $500,000-added Woodford Reserve Turf Classic (GI) \ 50-cent minimum Pick 4 begins

SCRATCH #4 Scrumpdilicious

SCRATCH #6 Coalport

SCRATCH #8 Stephanie's Kitten

RACE 11 (6:34 p.m.) - 141st running of the $2 million guaranteed Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI) | Kentucky Derby $1 Super Hi-5

SCRATCH #12 International Star

[cj]

Stephanie's Kitten scratched due to an issue between Ken Ramsey and Chad Brown, according to Ramsey. He didn't elaborate.

[Shelby]

Stephanie's Kitten scratched due to an issue between Ken Ramsey and Chad Brown, according to Ramsey. He didn't elaborate.


Getting weirder and weirder.........

[Shelby]

http://www.kentuckyderby.com/sites/kentuckyderby.com/files/u64720/20150502%20Ramsey%20on%20International%20Star.pdf