Green With Eddie to miss Del Mar Futurity with injury

DEL MAR, Calif. – The stakes winner Green With Eddie has been sidelined with a bone chip in an ankle and will not start in the $300,000 Del Mar Futurity on Sept. 5, trainer Doug O’Neill said on Saturday.

O’Neill said the injury was diagnosed in recent days after Green With Eddie worked a half-mile in 47.40 seconds Aug. 21.

Owned by Paul and Zillah Reddam, Green With Eddie has won 2 of 3 starts and earned $115,600. Green With Eddie won the Graduation Stakes for California-breds on Aug. 3 in his most recent start.

As of Saturday, there were five candidates for the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity at seven furlongs – Big League, Chasing Aces, Klimt, Midnight Pleasure, and Straight Fire. Klimt won the Grade 2 Best Pal Stakes on Aug. 13.

Straight Fire, who won a maiden race by 10 1/4 lengths on Aug. 6, worked five furlongs in 59.60 seconds on Saturday.

The meeting’s leading race for 2-year-old fillies is Saturday’s $300,000 Del Mar Debutante at seven furlongs. Champagne Room, the winner of the Grade 2 Sorrento Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs on Aug. 6, is a leading contender for the Grade 1 Debutante. She worked a half-mile in 46.20 seconds on Saturday.

Miss Southern Miss, second in the Sorrento, worked five furlongs in 59.20 seconds for the Del Mar Debutante.

Other probable starters are American Cleopatra, American Gal, Morganite, Noted and Quoted, and Union Strike.