Skip Away Will Be No Show for Breeders’ Cup Classic
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Skip Away, who would have been Cigar’s chief opponent in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Woodbine in Toronto on Oct. 26, will not be running in the $4-million race, it was announced Tuesday.
“No Canada,” Pete Johnson, an assistant to trainer Sonny Hine, said at Skip Away’s barn at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky.
Tuesday was the deadline for paying the first $160,000 of the $480,000 supplementary fee that would have made Skip Away eligible for the Classic. The 3-year-old colt, who beat last year’s horse of the year, Cigar, in the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park on Oct. 5, is owned by Carolyn Hine, the trainer’s wife.
Sonny Hine, 65, has been hospitalized in Lexington since Saturday night, unable to pass a kidney stone, and he may undergo exploratory surgery.
Johnson said Skip Away will start a vacation today.
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