Breeders' Cup: Ramatuelle scratched from Mile

DEL MAR, Calif. – The 3-year-old filly Ramatuelle was scratched late Thursday night from the Breeders’ Cup Mile.

A release from part-owner Arthur Hoyeau distributed on social media stated that the filly had been diagnosed through a PET scan with bone remodeling in one of her legs. The injury isn’t acutely serious nor career-threatening but necessitated a scratch from a race toward which she’d been aimed for months by trainer Christopher Head.

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Head, who trained Blue Rose Cen to win the 2023 French 1000 Guineas and French Oaks, never has started a horse in the Breeders’ Cup or North America. His father, Freddy Head, rode Miesque to two wins in the BC Mile and trained Goldikova to three more, though he also suffered a similar disappointment at the 2018 Breeders’ Cup, when state veterinarians, to Head’s consternation, scratched his Mile runner Polydream.

Ramatuelle’s impressive win Oct. 6 in the Prix de la Foret would have made her one of the shorter-priced Mile runners. Her scratch leaves a field of 11 for the Mile.

Ramatuelle, an American-bred by Justify, is catalogued in Fasig-Tipton’s November sale on Monday in Lexington, Ky.

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