The much-anticipated season debut of world-champion pacer Somebeachsomewhere has been put on hold after his connections decided to not start the 3-year-old colt in Saturday’s Ontario Sire Stakes Gold eliminations at Mohawk after suffering a bone bruise. “We’re thinking he did it last week, and it’s a bad bruise,” trainer and co-owner Brent MacGrath told harnessracing.com Thursday afternoon. “X-rays don’t show it, but we had an MRI done and it showed the bruise. We had it done to make sure the bone wasn’t cracked or broke.”
MacGrath said he had earlier entered Somebeachsomewhere into the Gold elims, but withdrew the entry before the draw was done. The actual draw had also been postponed two days as Ontario Racing Commission officials investigated if a trainer change had been properly done under the rules.
Undefeated in six starts last year, including his world-record 1:49.3 effort in the $950,000 Metro final at Mohawk, Somebeachsomewhere was voted honors as Canada’s co-Horse of the Year with Tell All, and was named the Dan Patch Award winner as the top 2-year-old colt pacer in the U.S. After being prepped at MacGrath’s home track of Truro Raceway in
"He probably would have been fine this weekend," added MacGrath. "He qualified so often, and there are so many things we want to get done with him. We want to be in Kentucky in the fall; we really believe he will do his thing there. We really think he could have paced in :48 in the qualifier the other day. And Mohawk's isn't that fast yet."
MacGrath said plans now call for Somebeachsomewhere to make his first pari-mutuel start in the
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