Belmont Park
Cross Traffic's return delayed by injury
Barbara D. Livingston Cross Traffic hasn't raced since last year's Jockey Club Gold Cup.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Cross Traffic has had a setback in his attempt to return to the races.
Trainer Todd Pletcher said that Cross Traffic injured a splint bone in a foreleg, and that has kept him off the work tab since early June. The injury forced Cross Traffic to miss a planned late June comeback on his way to the Grade 1 Whitney, a race that he won last year.
“He popped a splint,” Pletcher said. “Hopefully, he’ll be back on the work tab this weekend.”
As for future plans, Pletcher said, “We’re taking it as it comes.”
Cross Traffic has not raced since finishing seventh in the Jockey Club Gold Cup last fall. He stumbled in that race and was found later to have a shin injury.