Breaking News: No Shot for Triple Crown

I'll Have Another out of the Belmont

• The first chance to win a triple crown in 5 years is out. Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes champion I'll Have Another was scratched today due to tendonitis. This means the streak of 34 years without a triple crown winner will go on at least one more year.
• The 3-year old had a light workout on Thursday and went for a job on Friday morning. After his Friday morning workout a veterinary scan showed a "tender" tendon. His trainers decided it was not worth the risk of him doing further damage to himself, and pulled him out of the Belmont Stakes.
• The handlers of I'll Have Another have not made a final decision, but it is likely that the Preakness was the last time the horse will race. The winner of one triple crown races fetch a large sum of money in the stud market, the winner of two is pretty much guaranteed to have a pretty good life.