UPDATE: Bud White 'put down'- Trainer
Speaking exclusively with Virgin Islands News Online, Smith said the five-year-old stallion was put down on Sunday, June 9, 2013 after attempting to stand while in the stables and breaking a bone in his damaged leg during the process.
The trainer said the horse also suffered torn ligaments to his previously injured foot and was found bleeding in the stables.
Bud White had damaged a sesamoidean ligament in his left foreleg during the feature race of the pre-Father’s Day card at Ellis Thomas Downs on June 2, 2013.
The Alliance Point Stables team had expressed hopes that the horse would recover well enough from the injury and be used to stud since there were no hopes at the time that he could run again.
See previous story posted June 6, 2013:
Trainer remains positive about Bud White’s recovery chances
- sees horse's mobility as good sign
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Trainer, Michael Smith remains positive in hopes that the horse Bud White will survive a recent injury received in the feature race of the Pre-Father’s day card at Ellis Thomas Downs in Sea Cows Bay on June 2, 2013.
Ahead of a scheduled x-ray by a veterinarian, Smith disclosed that the horse was mobile, getting up and laying down even as he remained in the stables in the interim.
Smith said this was a good sign even though it appeared that the horse “blew out” a sesamoidean ligament in his left foreleg. The ligament is located immediately above the horse’s hoof and the injury usually takes a great length of time to heal.
“He can’t ever race again,” Smith said, “but hopefully we’re trying to keep him so that he can go and stud.”
The trainer was cautious about the full extent of the horse’s injuries even though a veterinarian had already determined the root cause of the injury. He noted that an x-ray was still required and this was the next step in planning the horse’s future.
Bud White suffered the injury, initially assessed by the Alliance Point Stables team to be a broken leg, during the feature 6½ furlongs race last Sunday. A broken leg would most likely have meant that the champion race horse would have to be “put down” as a result.
Recent indications had shown that Bud White was one of the few challengers that came close to upstaging the current free reign exhibited by Tortola’s very own Really Uptown when he ran neck and neck with the horse in the final race of the VI Triple Crown Challenge.
It remains left to be seen which horse would now rise to the occasion in challenging Really Uptown at the upcoming August Tuesday races scheduled for Ellis Thomas Downs on Tuesday August 6, 2013.
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