Stakes winner Ready for Rye succumbs to colic

Ready for Rye, a stakes-winning sprinter on turf and dirt, had to be euthanized last month due to complications from colic, trainer Tom Albertrani confirmed.

Ready for Rye was entered in but scratched from the Lucky Coin Stakes on Aug. 31 at Saratoga. Albertrani said the horse had a colic episode the previous night and required surgery. Albertrani said Ready for Rye had other subsequent bouts with colic thereafter, but had recovered enough to be sent to a farm near Saratoga.

He then had another bout with colic that proved fatal.

Ready for Rye, a gelding by City Zip owned by Chalk Racing, had a record of 7-5-6 from 29 starts and earned $819,090. As a 3-year-old in 2015, Ready for Rye won the Grade 2 Swale on dirt and the Allied Forces and Quick Call Stakes on turf.