Blamed targeting fall return

Blamed, the Sunland Park Oaks winner who was forced to miss an intended start in the Kentucky Oaks after being injured in her final work for the race earlier this month at Churchill, is currently rehabbing in Versailles, Ky., trainer Joel Marr said.

“She had an injury to a hind fetlock, a hairline fracture in a hind pastern,” Marr said.

Blamed underwent an arthroscopic procedure and had stall rest for two weeks. She is now being hand-walked and in the near future will start jogging under tack – after she passes another round of tests, Marr said.

“We’re not in a hurry,” Marr said. “It will probably be the fall before she runs.”

Blamed, who later this summer will rejoin Marr at his division at Ruidoso, has won her last five races. She was a 6 1/4-length winner of the $200,000 Sunland Park Oaks in her most recent start March 25. With the win, she completed a sweep of the track’s series for 3-year-old fillies, as she also captured the El Paso Times in January and the Island Fashion in February.

Blamed is a Maryland-bred daughter of Blame who races for Cleber Massey.

◗ Entries for the Grade 3, $200,000 Lone Star Park Handicap will be taken Sunday. The 1 1/16-mile race will be run next Sunday, May 27. It is the co-richest race of the meet alongside the Grade 3, $200,000 Steve Sexton Mile that earlier this month was won by Bee Jersey.

◗ Grade 2 winner Mobile Bay on Friday drew post 3 in a field of seven for the $100,000 Louisiana Legends Night Classic, one of eight stakes to be run next Saturday night, May 26, at Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, La.