Timeline okay after sustaining cuts during Pegasus win

ELMONT, N.Y. – The undefeated 3-year-old Timeline appears to have escaped significant injury after being stepped on during Sunday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Pegasus at Monmouth Park, a race he won by 3 1/2 lengths under Javier Castellano.

“The horse looks okay,” trainer Chad Brown said Monday. “He’s got a cut on his hock and on his right hind leg through the bandage, and he sprung his shoe pretty good. We got it off him after the race. He seems like he’s going to be fine.”

A photo of the Pegasus finish line shows superficial cuts on Timeline’s right hind leg and his shoe hanging off the bottom of his foot. Fortunately, there did not appear to be any damage to the foot caused by the nails that affix the shoe.

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“It could have been a lot of worse,” Brown said. “Thankfully, the horse ran through it and performed well and came back in relatively good shape.”

In the Pegasus, Timeline ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:41.32 and earned a 99 Beyer Speed Figure. He is now 4 for 4, including a similarly easy 3 1/2-length victory in the Grade 3 Peter Pan at Belmont. The Pegasus victory sets Timeline up for the Grade 1, $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on July 30, when he likely will meet Classic Empire, last year’s 2-year-old male champion. A foot abscess prevented Classic Empire from making the Belmont Stakes after he finished second to Cloud Computing in the Preakness.

Cloud Computing, also trained by Brown, returned to the work tab on Saturday, breezing a half-mile in 48.89 seconds over Belmont’s main track. He is being pointed to the Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga on July 29, when he is expected to meet Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming.