Take Charge Brandi Scheduled for Surgery

The country’s champion 2-year-old filly of 2014, who will miss her eagerly-anticipated match-up against American Pharoah and the other talented males in the Rebel after suffering an injury earlier in the week, will undergo surgery to repair a non-displaced bone chip in her right knee at Rood & Riddle Clinic in Lexington, KY.  Thursday (March 12) morning.

Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas said that he expects the daughter of Giant’s Causeway, who is owned by Arkansas businessman Willis D. Horton, to return to his stable at Oaklawn on Saturday.

“She’s only going to be out for 60 days. The prognosis is 100 percent for her to come back, so we’re looking at May 15,” said Lukas. “She’s been as clean as a hound’s tooth, up to now. She’s been an unbelievably maintenance free racehorse in every way, and I think this little setback will let her mature and grow a bit. I’m looking at it positively.

Source: Oaklawn Park