{Kentucky}...Jockey Julien Leparoux escaped serious injury in Sunday’s $150,000 Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland, but Here Comes Frazier sustained a life-threatening injury when the 2 year old colt crashed into the turf-course rail while seemingly shying from the jockey’s right-hand whip in the upper stretch. The colt was taken to Rood & Riddle equine hospital after suffering a compound fracture of his right hock. Here Comes Frazier, the second choice, had led all the way and had a one-length lead about the three-sixteenths pole when Leparoux raised the whip. Leparoux later said he did not actually strike the colt and could not say for sure that caused Here Comes Frazier to careen sideways into the rail, falling and bouncing back into the aluminum structure. Leparoux went sailing over the rail, tumbling and skidding for at least several yards. Trainer Kenny McPeek said after the race that Here Comes Frazier, a seven-length winner in an Arlington maiden race in his only other start, had never been hit with a whip.
