Last updated: 9/1/12 11:32 AM
Shackleford, the 2-1 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s Grade 1 Forego
Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, has been scratched.
“He had a little cough last week and a little cough this morning, so we’re
going to play it safe,” trainer Dale Romans said Saturday morning.
Owned by Michael Lauffer, W.D. Cubbedge and Phillips Racing Partnership,
Shackleford has won five of 17 career starts, including the 2011 Preakness and
the 2012 Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap. In his most recent start, the
four-year-old was last of eight in the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap on
August 5 at Saratoga. The chestnut son of Forestry has earned $2,744,047 to date
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