Time and Motion suffers minor foot injury during Monday breeze

Phillips Racing Partnership's Grade 1 winner Time and Motion will have her next start delayed again after suffering a minor foot injury during her Monday breeze on the Oklahoma turf track, said trainer Jimmy Toner.

The 4-year-old daughter of Tapit was originally on target to enter the Grade 3, $200,000 Glens Falls on Saturday before being pushed back.

"We're not going to run; when she breezed three days ago, she came back with a foot abscess," Toner said. "It's nothing major, but we have to drain it, so we won't be able to make it this weekend."

Time and Motion, coming off back-to-back third-place finishes in the Grade 3 Beaugay on May 13 at Belmont Park and the Grade 3 Modesty on July 8 at Arlington, was scratched from the Grade 2 Woodford Reserve Ballston Spa on Travers Day, with Toner saying at the time the Glens Falls set up better with Lady Eli, the race's eventual winner, headlining the Ballston Spa.

Time and Motion won the 2016 Grade 2 Lake Placid at Saratoga, setting her up to win  the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup to cap her 3-year-old campaign. Her 2017 year started with back-to-back sixth-place efforts in the Grade 1 Matriarch and the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley before rebounding in the Beaugay.

"As long as it's nothing major, it's something we can deal with it," Toner said. "We haven't been able to get any type of rhythm with her this year. We'll just get her ready for Belmont.