Central City can breathe more easily now. Literally.
A threat in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, which will be run
Saturday here at Churchill Downs, Central City would chug and roar
around the racetrack not too very long ago, sounding like a steam
locomotive rapidly losing steam, caught in some pneumatic moil of
resperatory desperation. That's how his trainer, Ronny Werner, got away
with once running the colt for a claiming price of $10,000. Nobody who
had seen and heard Central City on the track possibly could have
claimed him, not a horse with such a wheeze, indicative, of course, of
a serious breathing problem, laryngeal hemiplegia.