Fusaichiswonderful scratched from Dogwood

An injury suffered in a minor stall mishap has resulted in the scratch of Fusaichiswonderful from Saturday's 30th running of the

Grade 3, $100,000 Dogwood Stakes for three-year-old fillies at Churchill Downs.

The chestnut daughter of Fusaichi Pegasus

suffered the injury in her stall at Keeneland on Friday, the eve of what would

have been her first start for trainer Tevis McCauley.

"She took a little hide off the inside of her leg, kind of

right down the side of the tendon, and it blew up just a little bit," McCauley

said. "It probably would have been fine to run her -- it's more superficial than

anything. But she's too nice a filly to risk anything and I didn't feel

comfortable sending her over there."

Fusaichiswonderful launched her career with a string of

five victories in Puerto Rico that included four stakes wins. She moved to the

U.S. barn of trainer Todd Pletcher, who saddled her in four races that included

a stakes win at Gulfstream Park. The filly was last seen finishing third in

Belmont Park's Victory Ride and was just a half-length back of fellow Dogwood

deserter So Many Ways when that one captured Churchill's Eight Belles on Kentucky

Derby Day.

McCauley's filly, who had been cross-entered in the

$400,000 Charles Town Oaks in West Virginia, was one three

late scratches from the Dogwood as of 1:45 p.m. (EDT). She had already scratched

from the Charles Town event.

Also declared from the Dogwood were So Many Ways and Thetaloveandmine. Both of those fillies were

cross-entered in the Charles Town race, as was Guadalupe High, a Ronny

Werner-trained filly who remains in the race at Churchill Downs.

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