Mike Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman's Explora (Blame), winner of Oaklawn's GIII Honeybee Stakes on Mar. 1, will miss her intended engagement in Friday's GII Fantasy Stakes at that venue after spiking a temperature, according to Horse Racing Nation.
“She spiked a temperature from the trip and we had to treat her with antibiotics,” Bob Baffert told HRN. “She'll go straight the [Kentucky] Oaks.”
Named a TDN Rising Star following a victory at Del Mar last summer, she was second in the GI Del Mar Debutante before rebounding to win the GII Oak Leaf at Santa Anita. She concluded her juvenile season with a close-up second behind Super Corredora in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies on Oct. 31.
This season, the newly-turned sophomore ran off to an impressive 5 1/4-length winner in the seven-furlong Santa Ynez at Santa Anita before settling for second behind Meaning in the one-mile Las Virgenes Stakes on Feb. 8.
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