Madone comes out of Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf with ankle chip

Madone, eighth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Nov. 6 at Keeneland, underwent surgery earlier this week to have a bone chip removed from an ankle.

Trainer Simon Callaghan said Wednesday that Madone will not race again until late spring.

“She will have 60 days, which we would have given her anyhow,” he said. “We’ll bring her back April time and hopefully we’ll have a filly to point toward the 3-year-old series.”

Many of the leading races for 3-year-old fillies on turf across the nation are run in the summer and fall.

Callaghan described the operation as “very straightforward.”

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“It has been cleaned up,” he said. “The prognosis is very good.”

Madone finished 5 1/2 lengths behind Aunt Pearl in the one-mile BC Juvenile Fillies Turf, closing from 11th in a field of 14. Owned by Kaleem Shah, Madone was beaten for the first time in her fourth start at Keeneland, having won two stakes on turf in California in September and October.