Freehold, NJ (My Sportsbook) - Former Hambletonian winner Vivid Photo has been diagnosed with a cracked coffin bone which will keep away from the racetrack. Trainer Roger Hammer made the announcement on Friday. The six-year-old gelding suffered the injury in his last race at Harrah's Chester on Thursday, April 24. The cracked coffin bone inside the left front hoof will keep Vivid Photo out for the remainder of the year. The injury did not need surgery. Vivid Photo won the 2005 Hambletonian, harness racing's most prestigious event, and was voted that year's champion three-year-old trotter. Last year he was named top older male trotter. Owned by Todd Schadel and Hammer, who also drives, Vivid Photo has won 34 of 70 lifetime starts for $2.8 million. Hammer plans to have the trotter ready to race in 2009. |
