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Tom Ridge out of Futurity

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October 04, 2004 Send To A Friend  | Print View

Trainer Jimmy Takter told The Horsman Monday afternoon that he will not be entering Tom Ridge in Saturday's Kentucky Futurity at The Red Mile after the 3-year-old colt trotter came up sick following a fourth-place finish Oct. 2 in a Transylvania division.



"I don't want to jeopardize the horse and you have to be 100 percent healthy to be able to go two heats," said Takter. "He's been fighting sickness on and off all year and he was obviously not himself when he won in 1:54 (in a late-closer the week before the Transylvania) and he obviously was sick Saturday.



"It's too bad it came at this time but there isn't too much you can do about it," he continued. "I'm glad he was healthy and able to shine that one day (when he set the world record of 1:50.2 while winning the World Trotting Derby at Du Quoin, Ill.).

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