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Frank M (IP Logged)
Date: December 07, 2002 02:02PM
Silver Charm,
Your memory for detail is astounding. After wracking my brain for days, and enlisting the help of a friend, we came up with the name of the horse. Nani Rose. She was a Stonerside filly trained by Pat Byrne. She won first out on the grass by 17.5 lengths, followed that with a win in the G3 Regret at CD and a win in the G3 Lake George at SAR. Then came the 'incident'. She had only one more race in her career, an eighth place finish in a G1 at BEL.
I was in Saratoga when Byrne got busted. His claim was that his vet, Dr. Fox, has mistakenly injected the wrong horse. Dr. Fox had arrived on the shedrow at the exact moment that both Byrne and the groom had left to go the washroom. Interestingly, there was only one bathroom at the barn leading to a whole other set of questions that I too much gentleman to ask here.
Frank