Boston Harbor Hurt in Workout

Boston Harbor, the 2-year-old thoroughbred champion of 1996, was injured during a workout Monday morning at Santa Anita and will be sidelined four months, according to trainer Wayne Lukas.

After working six furlongs in 1:12, the son of Capote, who completed last year with a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, suffered a fracture of the cannon bone in his left front leg.

“The exercise girl said he was pulling up on the [backstretch] and he took a bad step,” Lukas said. “They’ll put a pin in [the injured area].He’ll miss the [Triple Crown races] and that’s the tough part to handle.”

Owned by William T. Young’s Overbrook Farm, Boston Harbor, who was fourth in the Santa Catalina Stakes in his only start of 1997, was shipped to Alamo Pintado in Santa Ynez shortly after he was injured and was to undergo surgery Monday afternoon. He had been scheduled to run in Sunday’s $200,000 San Rafael Stakes.