Wed, 11/16/2011 - 14:40

A.U. Miner, injured in Breeders' Cup Marathon, recuperating from surgery

By Marty McGee
Alyssa Spakowski/EQUI-PHOTO
A.U. Miner's racing career is finished, but he is doing well following leg injury to repair the damage he sustained during the Breeders' Cup Marathon.

A.U. Miner, the 6-year-old horse who sustained a badly fractured left-front sesamoid on the final turn of the Nov. 5 Breeders’ Cup Marathon, continues to make progress at the Hagyard Davidson McGee Equine Medical Institute after undergoing surgery to repair the injury.

“I got a report on him this morning, and he’s doing okay,” trainer Clark Hanna said Wednesday. “He’s off all injectable medicines and is just on oral bute,” referring to phenylbutzaone, and anti-inflammatory analgesic. “The doctors say that’ll be the case for the next couple of weeks.”

Sat, 07/16/2011 - 16:49

Parx: A.U. Miner repeats in Greenwood Cup

By Joe DeVivo
Ryan Denver/Equi-Photo
A.U. Miner comes from last under Calvin Borel to win the $200,000 Greenwood Cup for a second straight year.

Perhaps a return to suburban Philadelphia was all A.U. Miner needed to regain his good form.

Winless in three starts since upsetting last year’s 1 1/2-mile Greenwood Cup at 14-1, A.U. Miner roared from last to first to capture the $200,000 Greenwood Cup at Parx Racing for the second time.

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