Disco Time skipping Risen Star

Disco Time, 3 for 3 to start his career and a late-rallying winner last month in the Lecomte, has been notably absent from the Fair Grounds work tab since that race and is not entered in Saturday's Risen Star Stakes.

“He’s fine. We just had a little setback with him,” said Brad Cox, who trains Disco Time for his breeder, Juddmonte.

Disco Time won a pair of one-turn races in Kentucky before closing from 10th to win the Lecomte with a modest 77 Beyer. Cox said the colt is in training and will be pointed toward the Louisiana Derby, Arkansas Derby, or Blue Grass.

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Cox said another Fair Grounds-based horse in his stable, First Mission, will make his first start since Aug. 3 in the $500,000 Razorback on Feb. 22 at Oaklawn Park. Five-year-old First Mission easily won the Grade 2 Alysheba Stakes last May at Churchill with a 106 Beyer Speed Figure, looking like a key player in the dirt route division for older horses, but he ended his campaign with a tame fourth as the odds-on favorite in the Stephen Foster Stakes and an uncompetitive seventh in the Grade 1 Whitney at Saratoga.

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