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Freak injury Globalize withdrawn from Derby
Posted: Thursday May 04, 2000 09:19 PM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The Kentucky Derby field was reduced to 19 on Thursday when long shot Globalize was withdrawn from the race with an injured left hind leg. The injury occurred when the pony escorting Globalize off the race track kicked the 3-year-old just below the hock, a large bone above the shin bone. The gash was 2 1/2-3 inches wide, according to trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, who added he thought the colt might need stitches to close the wound. Globalize had completed a 1 1/2-mile gallop and was being led off the track when "all of a sudden I heard a crack and I knew he had been kicked," said jockey Mike Smith, who was aboard the colt. Globalize, second in the Lexington Stakes and winner of the Spiral Stakes, was listed as 50-1 in the morning line.
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