Tommy Town Thoroughbreds' Barbados (Speightstown) exited his GIII Hutcheson S. victory Jan. 24 with a knee chip, according to trainer Mike Tomlinson.
“He came out of the Hutcheson with a small chip in the upper joint of the left knee,” Tomlinson said. “It's not anything serious. He'll only be off 60 to 90 days and it's a very good prognosis. The chip will come out very nicely. Dr. Bramlage said it's a fresh chip and it just happened in the race. We'll just get that done and bring him back in the fall.”
“He has never taken a sore step,” Tomlinson continued. “But, on Monday afternoon, we noticed a difference in the right and left knee, heat-wise. There was a little bit of pressure in the upper joint, so the next morning we looked him over close and decided we should go ahead and take a picture, and that's when the X-ray showed up.”
Dr. Larry Bramlage of the Rood and Riddle Equine Clinic in Kentucky is scheduled to perform the surgery Feb. 3.
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