No Monkey at Saratoga
 

From BH.....


The Green Monkey Dealt Setback; Will Not Start at Saratoga

By Claire Novak
The Green Monkey, this year's record-setting $16 million 2-year-old purchase, will not make his long-awaited debut at Saratoga Race Course, according to trainer Todd Pletcher.
"The Green Monkey pulled a gluteal muscle in his last work [August 2] and will be off for a couple of weeks, just jogging," Pletcher said Monday. "Unfortunately, he won't run at Saratoga."

The Green Monkey last breezed five furlongs in 1:03 2/5 over Saratoga's main track with retired Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero in the irons. He was pointing toward an undetermined race near the end of Saratoga's July 26-September 4 meet.

Michael Tabor, John Magnier, and Derrick Smith bought The Green Monkey, named for a golf course in Barbados, at the Fasig-Tipton Calder 2-year-old in training sale February 28.

This ain't good.

We may have already seen the best from him on the racetrack.

He aint stupid...That horse was NEVER seeing Saratoga because the last thing you want him to do is lose first out....matter of fact, lose at all.

He'll be fine. . . they're just being cautious with him. . . I would be too if I had paid $16Mil for him