TDN Rising Star Mindframe (Constitution), runner up in both Grade I attempts, will be sidelined because of bone bruising through the remainder of this year, according to DRF Wednesday. Campaigned by Repole Stable and St. Elias Stable, the Todd Pletcher trainee was sent to Ocala, Florida earlier this week and was examined by Dr. John Madison.
With the defection of Mindframe, Repole also indicated that recent GII Jim Dandy Stakes winner Fierceness (City of Light) is a possibility to run in the Aug. 24 GI Travers S.
“He's clear go to back into training in 60 days,” Mike Repole told DRF. “If Todd and I want to give him 90 days we can do that. In all honesty, we were probably skipping the Travers anyway with him. He's had four incredible races in about 3 1/2 months.”
Following a jaw-dropping 13 3/4-length win at Gulfstream in March, Mindframe returned to gallop home a winner in a 1 1/16-mile optional claimer on the Kentucky Derby undercard. A half-length shy of victorious Dornoch (Mage) in the June 8 GI Belmont Stakes in Saratoga, the Maryland-bred colt finished in the same spot behind that rival in the GI Haskell Stakes at Monmouth July 20.
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