Gary Tanaka’s SUDAN (Ire) (Peintre Celebre) has been scratched from
Saturday’s Arlington Million (G1) due to a bowed tendon. An Italian Group 1
winner, the five-year-old chestnut was sent to America and transferred to Bobby
Frankel this season. His absence will affect the pace scenario and leaves a
field of seven in the 1 1/4-mile
Million.
“He was fine when he galloped (at Arlington) yesterday,” Frankel told Tanaka
advisor François Dupuis by cell phone Friday
morning as the horsewoman stood on the Arlington Park apron during training
hours. “But when we scanned him this morning we discovered that the horse had
bowed a tendon.”
A wire-to-wire winner of the Golden Gate Fields Turf S. (G3) two starts back,
Sudan became embroiled in an early duel in the Man o’ War S. (G1) last time out
but still gamely held for fourth, beaten only 3 1/4 lengths by Red Rocks (Ire)
(Galileo [Ire]) and 1 1/4 lengths by Curlin (Smart Strike). The five-year-old
figured to set the pace in the Million before being sidelined with an injury.