Report: Champagne Room could be retired due to foot injury

Grade 1 winner Champagne Room's career on the racetrack could be over due to a hairline fracture in her foot that will require 90 days of stall rest, trainer Peter Eurton told the Daily Racing Form on Thursday.

With the filly now 4, her owners are deciding whether they want to retire 2016's 2-year-old female champion or bring her back to the races down the road. The hairline fracture was discovered close to the beginning of the week.

“They’re considering some offers for her,” Eurton told the DRF. “If we did decide to keep her in training, she won’t race again until July.”

“We had to put a bar shoe on it to give it support,” Eurton added. “We’ll X-ray it again in 90 days. She’s not in any danger. They could wait and race her.”

Champagne Room's next start would have been the Grade 3 Sam Houston Ladies Classic Jan. 28.

She earned her biggest score when she upset the 2016 Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at 33-1. Champagne Room returned in 2017 after overcoming an ankle injury to win the Remington Park Oaks. The Broken Vow filly was most recently second in the Grade 2 Bayakoa Stakes Dec. 3.

Owned in partnership by Alesia, Christensen, Ciaglia Racing LLC, Exline-Border Racing LLC and Gulliver Racing LLC, Champagne Room has won three of nine starts and earned over $1.49 million on the track.