Paris Lights out of training, will miss Alabama
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Paris Lights, winner of the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks here July 18, will be out of training for 60 days due to filling in a hock, said Elliott Walden, president and CEO of WinStar Farm.
Paris Lights is officially owned by WinStar Stablemates, a fan initiative that started 10 years ago and has turned into a racing syndicate that leases horses from WinStar Farm.
Paris Lights, trained by Bill Mott, beat Crystal Ball, also owned by WinStar Stablemates but trained by Bob Baffert, by a head in the CCA Oaks. It was the third straight victory for Paris Lights, a daughter of Curlin, following a third-place finish in her debut.
Paris Lights has been sent to WinStar to convalesce.
While Paris Lights won’t be able to run in the Grade 1 Alabama on Aug. 15, Crystal Ball will still represent the stable in the 1 1/4-mile Alabama. She remained in Saratoga following the Coaching Club and worked a half-mile in 49.09 seconds last Saturday.
Meanwhile, Mott is expected to have at least one runner in the Alabama with either or both Antoinette and Harvey’s Lil Goil to be entered in the race. Both also are nominated to the Saratoga Oaks Invitational, a 1 3/16-mile turf race, the following day.
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Swiss Skydiver, the Gulfstream Park Oaks and Santa Anita Oaks winner and Blue Grass Stakes runner-up, was expected to arrive Tuesday afternoon from Kentucky on a Tex Sutton flight that also was bringing Travers contender Uncle Chuck and Test runners Gamine and Venetian Harbor from Southern California. Swiss Skydiver will run in the Alabama.