Micro Share out of Santa Anita Oaks due to a fever

ARCADIA, Calif. – Micro Share, the easy winner of a maiden special weight race for 3-year-old fillies on March 11, will miss the Grade 2 Santa Anita Oaks on April 9 because of illness.

“I don’t think she’ll make the race,” trainer Richard Mandella said Sunday. “She has an elevated temperature.”

Micro Share won a one-mile race by 4 1/2 lengths at 2-5 on March 11, in her third start.

The Mandella stable had an encouraging afternoon Sunday when the 3-year-old colt Set Sail led throughout a maiden special weight race at a mile to win by 7 1/2 lengths in his second start. Set Sail was third in his debut in a seven-furlong maiden race on Feb. 26.

“The way he trained, we thought he would do that the first time,” Mandella said of Sunday’s win.

Set Sail is owned by Larry, Nancy, and Jaime Roth, who race as LNJ Foxwoods and bred the colt.

Mandella said Set Sail will be considered for the Grade 2 Pat Day Mile on May 7 at Churchill Downs.

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The Roths' veteran turf gelding United remains sidelined after he was diagnosed with a strained suspensory last November, an injury that led to a late scratch from the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Del Mar. Mandella said United will resume training this summer.

“We’ll have him back in the fall,” he said.

United, 7, has won 10 of 22 starts and earned $1,813,549 in a career with seven stakes wins.