From Bloodhorse.com
Horse of the Year California Chrome may miss the June 17 Prince of Wales’s Stakes (Eng-I) at Royal Ascot because he may have a bruised right front foot.
“There is a chance he bruised his foot; it must have happened during training,” Alan Sherman, assistant to his father, Art, said June 15. “We’re just soaking, packing, and poulticing it. Obviously, he won’t run unless he is 100%.”
Sherman said more would be known the morning of June 16 to determine whether the 4-year-old California-bred son of Lucky Pulpit is responding to the treatments.
The 2014 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and Preakness Stakes (both gr. I) winner has been training in Newmarket with Rae Guest since a runner-up finish in the Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) March 28. California Chrome previously missed an expected start in the Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes (Eng-I) May 16 at Newbury to allow him more time to recover from his trip from Dubai.
Bred and owned by Steve Coburn and Perry Martin, California Chrome would be seeking his second grade I win on grass in the Prince of Wales’s, following his triumph last year in the Hollywood Derby (gr. IT) at Del Mar.
The colt has a 9-3-1 record in 18 starts, with earnings of $6,322,650.