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08-28-2009, 07:42 AM
Excerpts from Bloodhorase magazine: BARABARO'S FULL BROTHER- Same bad luck?
In a maiden special weight at Gulfstream Park Jan. 31, Nicanor**** stumbled at the start ****and was bumped. The 3-year-old Dynaformer colt ****also hurt himself leaving the starting gate by grabbing his left quarter. With jockey Edgar Prado aboard, Nicanor was eighth after the first quarter mile, but by the half-mile point had improved his position to fifth. He faded after that and finished 10th of 12.
Trainer Michael Matz ****switched Nicanor to the turf for his fourth career start and it clearly suited the colt well, as he demolished a maiden special weight field by 15 1/4 lengths at Delaware Park May 13 (VIDEO).
The 3-year-old Dynaformer
colt, who is a full brother to 2006 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Barbaro, took the lead early and never looked back.
Although Nicanor finished off the board in his career debut Jan. 31 at Gulfstream Park, he finished second in his next two starts there. His last race was March 28.
20 Aug 2009 10:39 AM
While Lentenor (Barbaro full brother) continues his regular workouts at Fair Hill Training Center, his full brother, Nicanor, has been turned out and won't return to training until 60 days from when he was scratched out of the July 18 Virginia Derby due to ****a leg injury. So, based on that schedule Nicanor will be turned out (for 60 days) and walked in the shedrow until mid- to late September.
"Lentenor worked a nice three-eighths (of a mile, in :37 2/5) and galloped out a half-mile," Matz said. "He's working regularly."
Meanwhile, back at the farm, Headley Bell said the full brother to Lentenor and Nicanor foaled earlier this year is in a will soon join the other young horses in a paddock at Mill Ridge Farm.
Nicanor, Lentenor, and the unnamed foal are all sired by Dynaformer and produced from the mare La Ville Rouge, making them full brothers to Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro. La Ville Rouge is in foal to Dynaformer again this year, and fetal sex testing has determined she is carrying a filly, which would be the first in a male-dominated family.
In a maiden special weight at Gulfstream Park Jan. 31, Nicanor**** stumbled at the start ****and was bumped. The 3-year-old Dynaformer colt ****also hurt himself leaving the starting gate by grabbing his left quarter. With jockey Edgar Prado aboard, Nicanor was eighth after the first quarter mile, but by the half-mile point had improved his position to fifth. He faded after that and finished 10th of 12.
Trainer Michael Matz ****switched Nicanor to the turf for his fourth career start and it clearly suited the colt well, as he demolished a maiden special weight field by 15 1/4 lengths at Delaware Park May 13 (VIDEO).
The 3-year-old Dynaformer
colt, who is a full brother to 2006 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Barbaro, took the lead early and never looked back.
Although Nicanor finished off the board in his career debut Jan. 31 at Gulfstream Park, he finished second in his next two starts there. His last race was March 28.
20 Aug 2009 10:39 AM
While Lentenor (Barbaro full brother) continues his regular workouts at Fair Hill Training Center, his full brother, Nicanor, has been turned out and won't return to training until 60 days from when he was scratched out of the July 18 Virginia Derby due to ****a leg injury. So, based on that schedule Nicanor will be turned out (for 60 days) and walked in the shedrow until mid- to late September.
"Lentenor worked a nice three-eighths (of a mile, in :37 2/5) and galloped out a half-mile," Matz said. "He's working regularly."
Meanwhile, back at the farm, Headley Bell said the full brother to Lentenor and Nicanor foaled earlier this year is in a will soon join the other young horses in a paddock at Mill Ridge Farm.
Nicanor, Lentenor, and the unnamed foal are all sired by Dynaformer and produced from the mare La Ville Rouge, making them full brothers to Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro. La Ville Rouge is in foal to Dynaformer again this year, and fetal sex testing has determined she is carrying a filly, which would be the first in a male-dominated family.