NEWS
Debut stakes winner Olredlgetcha euthanized
Posted: Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:43 PM
OLREDLGETCHA
Michael Burns photo
by Jeff Lowe
Olredlgetcha, a Limehouse colt who won the Victoria Stakes in his debut at Woodbine on June 14, was euthanized on Tuesday after developing a staph infection in his right hock from a puncture wound.
The colt out of Mystical Beauty, by Cobra King, scored by three lengths for trainer Greg de Gannes in the five-furlong Victoria. The only first-time starter in the race, Olredlgetcha covered the distance in :57.66 on the synthetic Polytrack surface. (video)
The puncture wound occurred in the race, said Salvatore Simeone of owner R Own Stables. Olredlgetcha was treated at the University of Guelph in Toronto after symptoms set in two days after the Victoria.
“The infection was aggressively treated but rapidly spread to the joint capsule causing the horse great suffering and a total deterioration of the hock,” Simeone said. “It was just a shame to see his career truncated like that. It looked like he had so much promise.
“For two days he was perfect, and then he was real, real tender right up on the hock, up front, and it seemed like we got it under control with antibiotics. By the end of the next day, we sent him right to Guelph.”
Olredlgetcha was the first stakes winner for Limehouse, a freshman sire who stands at Vinery Kentucky in Lexington.
Simeone and his wife, Colleen, bred Olredlgetcha in the name of their Sienna Farms in Ocala. They consigned him to the Ocala Breeders’ Sale Co. August yearling sale and bought him back on a final bid of $70,000. He was not insured.
Jeff Lowe is a THOROUGHBRED TIMES staff writer
