Plate hopeful Manor Lodge euthanized

Tragic news from the Eugene Melnyk camp Wednesday morning as the owner's leading Queen's Plate contender MANOR LODGE was humanely euthanized this morning following a 5-furlong workout at Keeneland racecourse in Lexington, Kentucky.
The homebred son of Dixieland Band - Marley Vale, a 30 to 1 quote in the Plate winterbook odds, fractured both sesamoid bones in his right front leg, according to Melnyk's farm manager Phil Hronec. The colt also dislocated an ankle and suffered a condylar fracture in the same leg.
Manor Lodge, who was trained by Todd Pletcher, was second, beaten just a neck in his only race which came on March 11 at Gulfstream Park. The colt was less than a week away from making his second career start.