Santa Anita

Oviatt Class sent to farm with hock injury

Steve Andersen|Feb 04, 2022

Oviatt Class trains at Del Mar on Oct. 30, 2021

Barbara D. Livingston Oviatt Class began the season with a third-place finish in the Sham Stakes. He should be able to return to racing in the fall.

Oviatt Class, third in the Grade 3 Sham Stakes at Santa Anita on Jan. 1, has been sidelined with an injury that will keep him out of the major races for 3-year-olds in coming months.

“He hurt his hock coming out of the Sham,” trainer Keith Desormeaux said Thursday. “He’ll be out for four months and that takes us out of the Triple Crown. We’ll have a nice horse for the fall.”

Owned by James Downey, Oviatt Class ran in Grade 1 races in his final two starts of 2021 – a third in the American Pharoah Stakes at Santa Anita in October and a fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Del Mar in November.

In the Sham Stakes at a mile, Oviatt Class closed from last of five into a slow pace to finish 2 3/4 lengths behind the undefeated winner Newgrange, who returned to win the Grade 3 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park on Jan. 29.

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Desormeaux said that Oviatt Class has been moved to a farm in San Diego County until the spring.

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