Afleet Alex Out for Year; Gets Vote as Top “Sportsman”
Cash is King Stable’s Afleet Alex, tabbed by the senior writer at Sports Illustrated to be the magazine’s “Sportsman of the Year” for 2005, won’t race again until next year, trainer Tim Ritchey announced Nov. 5.
Afleet Alex, winner of this year’s Preakness Stakes (gr. I) and Belmont Stakes (gr. I), hasn’t fully recovered from an injury to his left front ankle, Ritchey told th
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Cash is King Stable’s Afleet Alex, tabbed by the senior writer at Sports Illustrated to be the magazine’s “Sportsman of the Year” for 2005, won’t race again until next year, trainer Tim Ritchey announced Nov. 5.
Afleet Alex, winner of this year’s Preakness Stakes (gr. I) and Belmont Stakes (gr. I), hasn’t fully recovered from an injury to his left front ankle, Ritchey told the TV Games Network. “It’s not 100% healed,” Ritchey said. “It’s better than previous X rays, but there’s still a small area there
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