Saratoga
Knee chip sidelines Kid Cruz
Barbara D. Livingston Kid Cruz works four furlongs in 48.91 seconds Monday morning.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Kid Cruz, a winner of four stakes this year as a 3-year-old, came out of his fourth-place finish in last weekend’s Travers Stakes with a chip in his left knee, according to trainer Linda Rice.
Rice said Kid Cruz will have surgery to remove the chip Tuesday and then be pointed to a 4-year-old campaign.
“He had a nice campaign, looking forward to bringing him back as a 4-year-old,” Rice said.
Kid Cruz won the Grade 2 Dwyer Stakes at Belmont on July 5. Prior to that, he won the Easy Goer Stakes on the Belmont Stakes undercard, the Federico Tesio at Pimlico, and the Private Terms at Laurel.