hoof injury
grrlscientist | May 26, 2008
Big Brown, the favorite to with the upcoming Belmont Stakes,
has suffered a minor hoof injury.
It was recently announced that Big Brown, who is the favorite to win the upcoming Belmont Stakes and horse racing's Triple Crown on 7 June in NY, has an injury that has kept him from working out since this past Friday. The injury, which was described as "very minor", is a quarter crack -- a vertical stress fracture in the hoof wall.
Ian McKinlay, a hoof expert with a Canadian company called Tenderhoof Solutions, examined Big Brown's hoof and described the quarter crack as approximately five-…