I'll Have Another won't.

[bluedigger]

Breaking.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

1. Scratched

Just heard it WFAN sports radio

[twogunsid]

2. Tendon injury...

may end his racing career.

[El Supremo]

3. I was really looking forward to going to my local track tomorrow and betting on him. More:

No one could immediately recall another instance when a Triple Crown contender pulled out the Belmont Stakes the day before the big race.

"It's not tragic, but it's a huge disappointment," Doug O'Neill said on "The Dan Patrick Show."

Asked if I'll Have Another has raced his last race, O'Neill said: "If I had to wager . I would say yes."

"It's devastating. I thought this was going to be one of the greatest races in history, and I wanted the opportunity to be part of it," said Dale Romans, trainer of second favorite Dullahan. "But this is bigger than that. This is terrible news."

http://news.yahoo.com/ill-another-scratched-belmont-160309810--spt.html

[El Supremo]

4. not in 76 years

I'll Have Another is only the third Triple Crown aspirant to miss the Belmont Stakes due to injury. The others are Bold Venture in 1936 and Burgoo King in 1932.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/i-ll-have-another-out-of-the-belmont-stakes-and-out-of-the-triple-crown.html;_ylt=Ah1Z8pftNgRMIoeVACIXEwY5nYcB

[twogunsid]

5. 76 years?...

I tend to think of those old time horses as being made of iron but I guess these kind of things happened back then too.

Thanks for that info about Burgoo King and Bold Venture. Very interesting.

I'm gonna go look that up on the DRF archive site.

Very cool.

[twogunsid]

6. Both were out with tendon injuries...

Bold Venture never raced again and Burgoo King didn't start again until he was a 5YO.

Interesting.