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Originally published Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 12:00 AM

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Notebook | Casino Drive has hoof setback

Despite "a small issue" with his left-hind hoof, Casino Drive on Friday remained in the field for today's 1-½-mile Belmont Stakes. "He's OK. He's doing well...

By McClatchy Newspapers and The New York Times

ELMONT, N.Y. — Despite "a small issue" with his left-hind hoof, Casino Drive on Friday remained in the field for today's 1-½-mile Belmont Stakes.

"He's OK. He's doing well, and better than he was this morning," stable spokesman Nobutaka Tada said Friday at 3 p.m. Pacific in the press box at Belmont Park. "Right now, we are in. We haven't scratched him. If he stays like he is now, there's nothing to stop him. We just missed jogging this morning, that's all."

Tada represents Japanese owner Hidetoshi Yamamoto and trainer Kazuo Fujisawa. Tada said a veterinarian suggested the 2-for-2 colt might have stepped on a stone or kicked something Friday morning. Tada said the colt stood in a tub of salts in the afternoon, and the hoof appeared to improve.

Casino Drive will be re-examined this morning.

"The hoof was a bit warm," Tada said. "If he's not well, we would scratch him, of course. Right now, he's fine."

Casino Drive is listed as a 7-2 second choice on the morning line for the Belmont. Big Brown, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner who will bid for the Triple Crown, is listed at 2-5.

Note

• Big Brown missed a few days of training in late May because of a quarter crack in his left-front hoof but had a 5-furlong workout Tuesday that pleased trainer Rick Dutrow Jr.

On Friday, hoof specialist Ian McKinlay removed steel sutures holding the crack together, cleaned Big Brown's hoof and laced the hoof wall together with new sutures. He applied an acrylic-and-fiberglass patch that was sealed within five minutes with adhesive.

"It's picture perfect," McKinlay said of the hoof. "This was a minor, minor injury — on the scale of one to 10, this was maybe a three. He was healed two days ago. Things couldn't be better. It's time for history."

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