Aiken, SC (SportsNetwork.com) – Eclipse Award finalist Palace Malice suffered
an injury Wednesday while training and bruised his foot.
Owned by Dogwood Stable and Three Chimneys Farm, Palace Malice has a bruise in
the sole of his foot after throwing a shoe and did not train Thursday and will
not have a scheduled workout Friday morning.
“When the bruise has dissipated, he’ll resume training and will either have
another breeze here and then ship to Florida, or he will leave once he’s
sound,” Dogwood president Cot Campbell said on the stable’s website.
The 5-year-old was going have his second workout of the year on Friday and jog
Saturday morning. He was then being shipped to trainer Todd Pletcher in
Florida on Sunday afternoon, but that will be delayed.
Palace Malice has not raced since suffering a bone bruise during the running
of the Whitney Stakes at Saratoga last August.
A five race campaign has been put together for Palace Malice. His season will
begin with the Westchester Stakes at Belmont Park on May 2.
“The logic of the five-race campaign was easily determined by Three Chimneys,
Dogwood and Todd Pletcher,” Campbell said. “The Westchester is the ideal
Belmont prep for an appearance in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Mile, in which he
defeated Goldencents two-time Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile winner this past
year. We would follow with three Grade 1 stakes – the Whitney, early at
Saratoga, the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont in the fall and the Breeders’
Cup Classic at Keeneland.”
Palace Malice won last year’s Gulfstream Park and New Orleans Handicaps along
with the Westchester and Met Mile. The colt has seven wins from 17 career
starts for $2,676,135.
