Beautiful Trauma has bone chip removed, will return in summer

NEW ORLEANS – Three-year-old filly Beautiful Trauma, who got a 92 Beyer Speed Figure for a 16-length victory in a mile and 70-yard first-level allowance race Dec. 21 at Fair Grounds, has undergone surgery to remove a bone chip in her knee, trainer Tom Amoss said. Beautiful Trauma, if all goes well, will be aimed toward a late-spring and summer campaign.

Making her first start around two turns here last month, Beautiful Trauma went to the front and drew steadily clear to post one of the two most impressive performance this meet from a horse in her class.

Equally sharp winning the Letellier Stake on the same Dec. 21 card was Taraz, who worked a bullet half-mile in company Sunday at Fair Grounds in 46.80 seconds as she prepares for her route debut in the Martha Washington Stakes on Feb. 1 at Oaklawn Park.

◗ The cancellation of training here Saturday because of a storm led to very heavy work tabs on Sunday and Monday. Among the workers of note Sunday were Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner British Idiom, who went a half-mile in 48.60 preparing for her 3-year-old debut Feb. 15 in the Rachel Alexandra Stakes, and Scabbard, who worked five furlongs in 1:01.60. Scabbard will be no worse than second choice here Saturday in the Lecomte Stakes after shipping from Florida for trainer Eddie Kenneally.

Monday’s workers included Grade 3-winning turf filly Alms, a half-mile in 49.20; Cotillion winner Street Band, a half in 48.80; and Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club winner Silver Prospector, five furlongs in 1:00. Silver Prospector is being pointed to the Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn.