Country Grammer done for the season

ELMONT, N.Y. – Country Grammer, who won the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes earlier this year at Saratoga, will miss the remainder of his 3-year-old season due to a hind-end issue, trainer Chad Brown said.

Country Grammer was pointing to Saturday’s Preakness Stakes. But he came out of a work with an issue, Brown said, and was sent to Dr. Larry Bramlage, who found “a minor lameness issue behind.”

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“He’ll probably need 30 days off,” Brown said. “I’m glad I stopped on him. He wasn’t quite right. He would have needed to have been 110 percent to go into that race, and he just wasn’t.”

◗ Oleksandra, the Australian-bred mare who suffered a broken splint bone in her victory against males in the Grade 1 Jaipur here in June, worked three furlongs in 38.18 seconds on Friday morning over the Belmont Park main track. Her connections are hoping to train her up to the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 7 at Keeneland.