Saratoga Sinner will miss Derby due to knee chip



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Holy Bull S. (G3) winner SARATOGA SINNER (Harlan's Holiday) has been sidelined by a chip in his left knee and will miss the Kentucky Derby (G1). Trainer Eddie Kenneally said the colt will be out of action until the summer.

"It's extremely disappointing," Kenneally told The Courier-Journal. "It's hard to get one good enough to win some of these major Derby preps. And then to win one, you still have to be lucky enough to keep them sound. We had one that was good enough, but we can't take him there because of this little bone chip we have to take out.

"He'll return 100 percent, that's the good part, and he'll be a nice horse," Kenneally added. "It won't shorten his career or take away from his ability."

After wrapping up his juvenile season with a close third in a Churchill Downs maiden special weight event, Saratoga Sinner opened his three-year-old campaign with a smart 1 1/2-length maiden score in a 1 1/8-mile event at Gulfstream Park on January 7. The Lally Stable colorbearer jumped right into stakes competition in Saturday's Holy Bull and upset nine rivals at 12-1 odds, winning the nine-furlong race by three parts of a length.

The Kentucky-bred colt has compiled an overall mark of 4-2-0-1, $116,495.