by Kim Thomas Trainer Chip Woolley announced today that even though Kentucky Derby winner MINE THAT BIRD will have minor throat surgery to clear a breathing passage tomorrow, his owners are going ahead with plans to run him in the Grade I Travers Stakes in two weeks.
(photos courtesy of Photos by Z, Lisa Osland and Amy Owens)
Apparently the condition -- an entrapped epiglottis, which can interfere with a horse's breathing -- was detected today during a routine examination shortly after MINE THAT BIRD after a workout at Saratagoa.
MINE THAT BIRD will undergo the operation at the Ruffian Equine Medical Center near Belmont Park in New York. Woolley was quoted as stating that the gelding would not run in the Travers Stakes if he was not 100 percent by then.
After winning the Derby as a 50-1 lonshot, MINE THAT BIRD was second place finisher to uber-filly Rachel Alexandra in the Preakness, then finished behind Summer Bird in the Belmont Stakes.
Most recently, MINE THAT BIRD placed third in the West Virginia Derby.
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