Quality Road not only suffered several injuries from his traumatic incident at the starting gate prior to the Breeders' Cup Classic, he suffered mentally as well and now will have to van home to Belmont Park from California after refusing to get on the plane.

"He's got stitches, he nearly knocked a tooth out, he's got a laceration and a big bruise over one eye, and a pretty significant hematoma on his left leg," said Chris Baker, farm manager for owner Edward P. Evans. "They appear to be passing things and soft tissue type of injuries, but he still has to recover from them and also the mental wounds.

"They tried to get him on the plane to leave California Monday and he wouldn't load. He didn't throw another fit trying to get on the plane, but they got him as close as they could get him and he was just freezing up like a horse that was going to flip over or something else. They said he's not right about it and they weren't going to force him to get on, which was the right choice. So, they took him back to Santa Anita and we're probably going to have to van him back home. We've got some work ahead of us to get him right. We want to race him next year, and we hope this goes away. This is a smart horse, and when he has that kind of experience it's not something he's going to forget. He's really shook up