The Mojo Filly's Back In Action!
January 7, 2012
Mojo Racing Partners
starts the year off with some fantastic news: Earlier
this week, the vet cleared Wild About Annie to return to
training, and Diamond D Ranch began galloping the Mojo Filly around the
track!
“This is definitely much-anticipated
good news for us,” reports Fred Taylor, Mojo’s Managing
Partner. “This partnership group has
patiently waited
a very long time for this, and they deserve a lot of credit for hanging
in
there and not bailing out. Though we
weren’t able to race Annie at all in 2011 because of a tiny
injury (literally),
all of the Partners understood that waiting was the right thing to do. So, we took our time and did what was best
for the Filly.”
Back in February
2011,
Wild About Annie was prepping for the Lone Star Meet when she came back
to the
barn after a breeze with a little heat on her left knee.
Even though Annie’s movement was good,
Diamond D’s Manager, Jimmy “Scooter” Dodwell,
didn’t want to take any chances
and he had the vet take a closer look.
As it turned out, Annie had a faint hairline fracture on
one the floating
bones in her left knee. The fracture was
too small and isolated to be treated surgically. So,
the only thing to do was wait, and wait,
and wait…
While WAA was
turned
out, the Partners agreed to have some chips cleaned out her knees
(unrelated to
the crack and not causing her any issues); and, toward the end of the
summer,
they utilized shockwave therapy treatments to help stimulate the
healing
process in the knee bone. “It looks
like time and a
little non-evasive treatment worked out,” Fred says.
“Annie’s a big, beautiful gray
horse—much like
her daddy (Louisiana Derby winner, Wimbledon).
She carries her weight well and never showed any signs of
lameness;
but you just can’t rush these things.”
After speaking
with Scooter
this week, his feedback was encouraging. “Other
than having a little extra weight, when
we brought her back in, it was like she didn’t miss a day of
training,” Scooter
said. “She took the saddle and rider
with no problems, was very well behaved, and minded her business when
we
took her around the track.”
Moving forward, the Mojo
Plan is to get ready for the 2012 Lone Star Meet. For
the next three months, Annie will be
slowly worked back into fitness at Diamond D.
January will be steady gallops increasing the distance
each week. In February, short breezes. And, in March, timed works.
“We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves
because there’s a lot of work to do to get Annie ready,”
Fred reminds everyone.
“But, we are thrilled to have the Mojo Filly back in action and
we’re looking
forward to better days ahead in 2012.”
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