FROM DRF.COM

Alpha Kitten sidelined with a broken leg
By Steve Andersen
ARCADIA, Calif. - Alpha Kitten, the winner of the Grade 2 Santa Ynez Stakes at Santa Anita last month, suffered a non-displaced condylar fracture to the cannon bone of her right foreleg while galloping at Santa Anita on Thursday, said trainer John Sadler.

A 3-year-old filly, Alpha Kitten was scheduled to undergo surgery this weekend to have stabilizing screws placed in the leg. Because the bone was not displaced, Sadler expects Alpha Kitten to return to training later this year, possibly within five or six months.

Owned by breeders Jerry and Ann Moss, Alpha Kitten has won 2 of 4 starts and $162,870. She was considered a candidate for the $300,000 Las Virgenes Stakes next Saturday.

Alpha Kitten won her first stakes in the seven-furlong Santa Ynez. Last year, she won a maiden race at Del Mar, finished second in the Anoakia Stakes at Santa Anita, and was fourth in the Grade 1 Hollywood Starlet Stakes at Hollywood Park.

Alpha Kitten would have been a supporting player in the Grade 1 Las Virgenes, which is expected to draw 2008 champion 2-year-old filly Stardom Bound. The winner of three Grade 1 stakes, Stardom Bound has not started since winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies on Oct. 24. In the Las Virgenes, she will make her first start for IEAH Stables, which bought her for $5.7 million at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall sale in November.

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