Travers Runner-Up Caracaro Injured, Out Of Kentucky Derby

At Saratoga Friday morning, Caracaro had just completed his final workout before next Saturday's Kentucky Derby when exercise rider J.J. Delgado felt the Travers runner-up take a bad step. According to the Daily Racing Form, trainer Gustavo Delgado didn't like the look of his ligament, and the colt is officially out of consideration for the Run for the Roses.

“I don't have the words,” trainer Delgado told drf.com. “Horses, one day they're good, one day they're bad. That's life as a horseman.”

A 3-year-old son of Uncle Mo, Caracaro finished second in the G3 Peter Pan Stakes on July 16 in what was his first foray into stakes company off a six-month layoff since a maiden-breaking victory at Gulfstream in January. On Aug. 8, Caracaro was beaten 5 1/2 lengths by Tiz the Law in the Travers, improving his record to one win and three seconds from four starts for earnings of $238,800.

Out of a daughter of War Front, Caracaro was a $95,000 weanling at the Keeneland November sale. He was bred in Kentucky by SF Bloodstock.

Owned by Global Thoroughbred and Top Racing LLC, the colt will have x-rays completed later Friday morning, and Delgado plans to ship the colt to the farm to recover.