Grade 1 winner Fault 'healed up,' to sell at Keeneland November

Grade 1 winner Fault is “100 percent healed up” following a workout injury June 3, but her racing career is still uncertain, trainer Phil D'Amato said Tuesday.

The 4-year-old filly was in her best form and training toward a possible start in the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps during Belmont Stakes weekend when she suffered a non-displaced condylar fracture in her left hind leg, which was followed by surgery the next day.

“She’s doing really good,” D’Amato said by phone, “but the owners decided to send her through the Keeneland November sale as a broodmare/racing prospect.

“She can definitely race again. It’s just depending on what the future owners decide to do, if they want to campaign her or breed her.”

Although the daughter of Blame only made three starts this year before her injury, 2018 was arguably her best season. Fault earned three consecutive stakes victories in the Grade 2 Buena Vista, the Grade 1 Santa Margarita and the Grade 3 Adoration, winning on both turf and dirt.

Bred by Claiborne Farm, Fault was a $120,000 yearling purchase for Klaravich Stables at the 2015 Keeneland September sale but was claimed for $50,000 in May 2017 by current owner Agave Racing Stable, moving from Al Stall Jr.’s care to Michelle Lovell. Little Red Feather Racing bought into the filly, and she moved to D’Amato’s Southern California stable before rattling off her three stakes wins.