Long Recovery Awaits Here Comes Frazier

Trainer Ken McPeek said Magdalena Racing’s Here Comes Frazier sustained a compound fracture to his right hock when he hit the rail while leading the field in Sunday’s Bourbon Stakes (G3) on the grass.
 
“He has not had surgery yet,” McPeek said Monday morning of Here Comes Frazier, who was taken to nearby Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital. “They are going to do more X-rays to see if there is anything else up higher.”
 
Here Comes Frazier was comfortably in front of his 11 rivals when he swerved into the rail just before the eighth pole and sent jockey Julien Leparoux into the infield. Leparoux was not seriously hurt.
 
“He is one of the most talented horses I’ve ever had,” McPeek said about Here Comes Frazier. “It is probably doubtful that he will ever race again, and he faces a long recovery time of six months to a year.”
 
A 2-year-old son of Badge of Silver, Here Comes Frazier had won his initial start by seven lengths on the main track at Arlington Park in September.
 

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