FDD Dynasty

Anyone know why he was scratched?

Champion of Champions should be awesome this year!!! Wish he made it to the Super Derby...oh well!

COURTESY OF LOS ALAMITOS.COM

FDD DYNASTY SCRATCHED OUT OF TRIALS


Champion FDD Dynasty was scratched out of the trials to the Los Alamitos Super Derby due to a stomach condition according to co-owner Frank "Scoop" Vessels.

"He had an upset stomach on Friday night so Dr. Rick Overly (DVM) and (assistant trainer) Cody Joiner made the decision at 4 a.m. Saturday morning to send him to the clinic at Vessels Stallion Farm," said Vessels in an interview with TVG. Rick and Cody made the right decision. The horse was feeling compacted when he arrived at the farm but everything is now moving in the right direction.

"We recently syndicated him so we couldn't take a chance to run him in the trials," Vessels added. "Nobody likes to compete more than me but we'll have to miss the Super Derby trials and move on from there. Co-owners Billy Smith and Pat Guthrie are also very competitive but the well being of FDD Dynasty comes first."

Vessels is confident that the son of First Down Dash, who won the Go Man Go Handicap on September 15, will be ready for the $1 million Champion of Champions in mid-December. FDD Dynasty moved into the starting lineup of the Champion of Champions after Los Alamitos Invitational Championship winner Strength In Numbers had season ending surgery earlier this week. The Go Man Go offered the first alternate starting berth into the Champion of Champions.

FDD Dynasty, voted the nation's champion 2-year-old colt in 2006, has won eight of 10 career starts for earnings of $1,073,001. In addition to the Go Man Go, he won the restricted Grade 1 Governor's Cup Derby and last year's Grade 1 Ed Burke Million Futurity.

Ah....
I love that horse!!!!

he started having some stomach problems the evening before and during the middle of the night they decided that it would be better if he was at the hospital just in case he were to get worse. Luckily he didn't. But with traffic in CA they could get him there fast at that time of the night but if he got worse saturday morning and traffic was bad we could have lost him. And that wasn't a risk we were willing to take. He is doing great, all happy and glad to be back home at our barn. I'm headed out to see him now and love on him. If everything continues going well we will aim at the Champion of Champions. I'll let you know if anything changes or of any updates. I'll try and get a picture and load it up if i figure out how.

Wonderful! Thanks for the info! I saw him last year but it was when he was at the track...didn't get to see a whole lot.

oh - and if you need any help with uploading pics just let me know!

Wow, I just watched the replays from the trials and that A Mere Splash looked really impressive. He ran all over the place and still beat Jess You and I pretty easily.

I saw he was the favorite, but I've never heard of him. Do any of y'all know what he did before this?

Here's a link to the pp's, he's in the 9th race. I wonder how long it took to get him stopped?





http://www.brisnet.com/cgi-bin/brisrep_enc.cgi/lax1020p.pdf?wagerid=2000&vlen=51&vouch=41375961B376B05F276940040750EDD1A711E267081BF23208602CD32E6584FECE78BDFC22076D1FC4EE64B4E007EDB5D45CE13461643437222900003F002000e

Thanks Smokey, but it won't let me open it.

haha ya, I think they need to change bits on him.