Mine That Bird, winner of the 2009 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I),
will have surgery Aug. 18 to correct an entrapped epiglottis, trainer
Chip Woolley said. The son of Birdstone will still be pointed for the $1-million Shadwell Travers Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga on Aug. 29. According to Woolley, the entrapped epiglottis was detected during a
routine scope performed by Dr. James Hunt on Mine That Bird following
his morning work at Saratoga earlier in the day. He worked five
furlongs in 1:03.83, the slowest time of a dozen horses going that
distance over a main track labeled "good."
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