Taste of Paradise Retired
Breeders’ Cup Sprint runner-up and Vosburgh Stakes winner Taste of Paradise has been retired. The six-year-old has a tendon injury, discovered by trainer Richard Mandella after a recent gallop:
“When I ran my fingers down his leg, there was just the slightest little bump…. We took an ultrasound to see if there was a little swelling because he had hit himself or because there was actually a tear, and we found just a tiny lesion on the tendon. It was only about the size of a teardrop, but he wouldn’t have been able to perform at the level he had been his last few races, and it probably would have turned into a bow had we continued to race him.”
Mandella had hoped to run Taste of Paradise in the Cigar Mile on November 26.
