Omaha Beach is set to travel on Monday to Kentucky, where he is scheduled to begin stud duty next month at Spendthrift Farm. But once arriving there, his condition will be monitored to see if the injury that forced his withdrawal on Thursday from the Pegasus World Cup Dirt on Saturday will impact the start of breeding season.

Omaha Beach was scratched from the Pegasus, which was scheduled to be his final career start, after X-rays detected what appeared to be the beginning of a fracture in his right hind ankle. The evaluation was made by the well-respected veterinarian Dr. Larry Bramlage.

“We’ll do follow-up X-rays to see if there’s any change one way or another, and formulate a plan from there,” Ned Toffey, the general manager of Spendthrift Farm, said while visiting Omaha Beach and his trainer, Richard Mandella, on Friday morning at Gulfstream Park. “We’ll have our vet get together with Dr. Bramlage. I’m cautiously optimistic he can start the breeding season on time, but if he can’t, he can’t.”

Full story, with reaction from trainer Richard Mandella, will be up in a bit at www.drf.com