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Vekoma may work next weekend after missing time with bruised foot

David Grening|Aug 07, 2020

Vekoma trains at Saratoga Race Course on July 20

Barbara D. Livingston Vekoma is still possible for the Aug. 29 Forego Stakes at Saratoga.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer George Weaver is hoping to get dual Grade 1 winner Vekoma back on the work tab next weekend after he missed some time with a bruised foot.

The Blood-Horse first reported Vekoma’s issue on Thursday.

Vekoma, who won the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap and Grade 1 Carter at the Belmont spring meet, is targeting the Grade 1 Forego here Aug. 29.

“Still looking to make the Forego if everything goes well,” Weaver said Friday. “If I can get two or three works in him we’ll be fine to run. We’ll take it day by day.”

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Weaver said Vekoma only missed a few days of training when an abscess popped out of his left front foot.

“I was going to breeze him around [Aug. 1] then that thing popped up,” Weaver said.

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