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Deweycheatumnhowe still possible for Breeders Crown

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November 21, 2008

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Ray Schnittker told The Horseman Friday afternoon that he is still optimistic his star 3-year-old colt trotter, Deweycheatumnhowe, will start in next weekend�s Breeders Crown final at the Meadowlands after the colt was taken to the Cornell University Veterinary Clinic on Thursday after he spiked a temperature.

�He�s a little better. Put it this way, if he was a $15,000 claimer he�d be racing,� said Schnittker, who trains, drives and co-owns Deweycheatumnhowe, who likely will be the betting favorite in the $500,000 Crown final. �He�s got a half of a hard ball where all the mechanics are in his throat, but it looks like it�s going down now. And his temperature has stayed down.�

Schnittker said Dewey began to exhibit signs of sickness on Wednesday so he had his wife, veterinarian Dr. Janet Durso, do an examination.

�He spiked a temperature and he was slobbering. I didn�t know why he was slobbering,� said Schnittker. �I took him to Cornell (Thursday) and they said it could be a swollen lymph node or a sliver or something in an abscess in there. It�s not life threatening, but with the type of horse he is you don�t want to have any screw-ups.�

With Dewey already having been entered, Schnittker could wait until the last possible second until making a decision on whether or not to race the colt in the Crown. Schnittker said he would know more on Monday, Nov. 24. The Breeders Crown is scheduled to be Dewey�s last race before heading to retirement at Walnut Hall Ltd. in Kentucky.

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