Miner's Reserve Sidelined

The injury to Miner’s Reserve , who set the pace in Saturday’s 1 Travers before tiring to finish seventh, is worse than originally thought, Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito said Monday, and the 3-year-old will miss several months of training as he recuperates from a hairline fracture in his right knee.

“Friday night, when we checked him out, his legs were cold,” said Zito, who trains Miner’s Reserve for Robert LaPenta. “After he ran, he got a little short walking, and we thought it was the foot, for sure. We put the foot-testers on him, and he jumped. And yesterday, he didn’t get any better. So, his legs were ice cold, and we X-rayed him, and there was a line in the knee. So he’ll be out for a few months.”

The Mineshaft colt, runner-up in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy behind A Little Warm, was 2-2-0 from eight starts this year.