Shared Belief recovering from hip injury

CYPRESS, Calif. – Shared Belief, the champion 2-year-old male of 2013, is being walked on a daily basis at a training center in Washington state, part of a recovery from a hip injury that led to the 4-year-old gelding being pulled up in the $1.45 million Charles Town Classic in West Virginia in April.

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said on Wednesday that there is no timetable for Shared Belief’s return to California. Shared Belief is based at the Pegasus Training Center in Washington, where he was sent in early May. At the time, Hollendorfer said that Shared Belief’s recovery would take months, and that no races were planned for the rest of 2015.

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Shared Belief won his first two starts this year – the Grade 2 San Antonio Stakes in February and the $1,001,750 Santa Anita Handicap in March – before he was pulled up after a half-mile of the Charles Town Classic. Shared Belief was diagnosed with a non-displaced fracture on the point of his right hip.

Owned by a partnership led by sports commentator Jim Rome, Shared Belief has won 10 of 12 starts and earned $2,932,200. His only other loss was a troubled fourth in a controversial running of the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita last November.