11.   Scorpion missed the Derby because he cracked his left front hoof in the Santa Anita Derby while chasing Point Given, the eventual winner, in April.

12.   Then Fusaichi Pegasus was withdrawn by his trainer, Neil Drysdale, after the colt sustained a small cut on his right front hoof in his stall.

13.   They will rear up like a horse and kick at the predators with their front hooves.

14.   Those bar shoes have been removed, and the small crack in the left front hoof now has a patch covering it, Ryerson said.

15.   When she has to go, Cuddles scratches her right front hoof on the ground, and the Burlesons lead her with rope and harness to the car.

16.   During a two-mile jog Monday, Tiznow sprung a shoe on his right front hoof.

17.   He missed the Belmont Stakes when he took a quarter-size chunk out of his right front hoof after being startled in his stall.

18.   Touch Gold, who had suffered a quarter-crack in the Preakness, raced with a patch on his right front hoof.

19.   Touch Gold has a quarter crack in left front hoof and will wear a patch on it in the Belmont.

20.   But the colt had to contend with a cracked left front hoof and the unfavorable outside post position and finished fifth at Churchill Downs.