Gold Spring Scratched From Breeders’ Cup

The Breeders’ Cup races lost a second contender in as many days Tuesday when Gold Spring was scratched from Saturday’s Sprint at Santa Anita.

On Monday, Kingmambo, a 3-year-old son of Miesque, the Mile winner in 1987-88, was left at home in France because of a cough and high temperature.

Gold Spring, a 5-year-old Argentine-bred, has a tendon injury. The horse, who was in training at Keeneland, had been scheduled to arrive at Santa Anita today.

Gold Spring’s owners, Ross Harris and Nancy Yearsley, had supplemented him into the six-furlong race at a cost of $200,000. Harris and Yearsley will forfeit $67,000, the first payment on that amount.

Gold Spring had five victories and three seconds in eight starts this year and had won 14 of 23 races overall.

Gold Spring’s place in the 14-horse Sprint will be taken by Monde Bleu, the Andre Fabre-trained 5-year-old who has won one of five sprints in France and England this year.

Breeders’ Cup Notes

Gilded Time, winner of last year’s Juvenile, but unraced since then because of sore hoof, is entered in the Sprint. In his final prep for the race, the colt worked a quick 1:10 4/5 for six furlongs. . . . Diazo and Pleasant Tango will come off the also-eligible list and be able to run in the Classic. Hernando will run in the Turf instead of the Classic. . . . Brocco, given a good chance to upset Dehere in the Juvenile, worked a half-mile in 46 3/5. . . . Flawlessly, expected to be entered in the Mile when the races are drawn today, worked five furlongs on grass in 59 4/5. . . Lure, the favorite in the Mile, is expected to continue racing next year . . . Thirty Slews, last year’s Sprint winner, worked a half-mile in :48 3/5.