Santa Anita: Shared Belief to bypass Lewis as injury is slow to heal

ARCADIA, Calif. – Shared Belief, the champion 2-year-old male of 2013, is unlikely to start in the Grade 2, $200,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita on Feb. 8 because of ongoing concern over a grabbed quarter.

Shared Belief has not worked since Jan. 3 and did not work as scheduled at Santa Anita on Friday. Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said that Shared Belief does not have a scheduled workout in coming days.

“We’re not satisfied with the progress of the foot,” said Hollendorfer, who described the foot as slow to heal. “You have to proceed day by day.”

Hollendorfer had hoped to work Shared Belief last weekend, a workout postponed until the middle of this week and then abandoned.

Shared Belief has been galloping in recent days, Hollendorfer said. Asked about the possibility of the gelding starting in the Lewis, Hollendorfer said, “I don’t think so.”

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Unbeaten in three starts, Shared Belief has not raced since winning the $751,500 CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park on Dec. 14. Shared Belief resumed workouts on Dec. 22 and had one workout there and two at Santa Anita before being diagnosed with a grabbed quarter.

Owned by a partnership of Hollendorfer, KMN Racing, Jason Litt, Jim Rome, Alex Solis II, and George Todaro, Shared Belief has earned $451,200. He won his stakes debut in the Grade 3 Hollywood Prevue Stakes at seven furlongs in November.