By Christie DeBernardis
Alex and JoAnn Lieblong's The Big Beast (Yes It's True) and Embellish the Lace (Super Saver) are both injured and out of contention for the Breeders' Cup, according to trainer Anthony Dutrow.
“TDN Rising Star” The Big Beast has what Dutrow calls a minor injury and will be forced to miss an expected start in the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint. Last term's GI King's Bishop S. hero will return to the races next year with the focus being the GI Alfred G. Vanderbilt S. and GI Forego S. at Saratoga, a pair of races in which he finished second last month.
“The Big Beast has a small injury that is going to keep him out of the Breeders' Cup, but by no means out of a racing season next year,” Dutrow told the TDN Thursday afternoon. “The Beast, he likes Saratoga as everybody knows. We will give him a race sometime in the spring and have him ready for those same two races at Saratoga.”
Embellish the Lace, winner of Saratoga's GI Alabama S. Aug. 22, was injured during last Saturday's GI Cotillion S. at Parx, in which she finished fifth to I'm a Chatterbow (Munnings). She was scheduled to make her next start in the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff at Keeneland Oct. 30.
“Her injury is not career ending, however the owners have decided not to pursue a racing career with her personally,” Dutrow commented. “She is going to be offered at the Fasig-Tipton November breeding stock sale as a racing and broodmare prospect.”
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