Texas Red will have to wait until next year

ARCADIA, Calif. – Texas Red, the winner of the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, is unlikely to start this year after being diagnosed with an ankle injury this spring.

Trainer Keith Desormeaux said on Friday that Texas Red will need a four-month recovery period for the injury, which he said does not require surgery.

“It’s nothing major, but I have to back off,” Desormeaux said. “He’ll be off for four months, so it will be eight months before you see him again. There’s always next year.”

Texas Red has not raced since finishing fifth in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga last August. The highlight of his 3-year-old season was a win in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga last summer. Texas Red was turned out in Kentucky last fall and resumed training with Desormeaux over the winter.

Owned by a partnership that includes Desormeaux, Erich Brehm, Wayne Detmar, and Lee Michaels, Texas Red has won 3 of 9 starts and earned $1,767,300.