Minor foot injury sidelines Jaxon Traveler

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The undefeated 3-year-old Jaxon Traveler suffered a minor foot injury that kept him out of last Saturday’s Spectacular Bid Stakes and will likely keep him out of action for a few weeks.

Jaxon Traveler “tore a little bit of his frog off,” according to Terry Finley, president of West Point Thoroughbreds, which co-owns Jaxon Traveler with Marvin Delfiner. The frog is the bottom part of the foot that acts like a shock absorber.

“We’re in a holding pattern,” Finley said. “He’ll be back in the worktab in a couple of weeks.”

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Jaxon Traveler, a 3-year-old Maryland-bred son of Munnings, has won all three of his starts, including the Maryland Juvenile Futurity at Laurel on Dec. 5. He is based in New York with trainer Steve Asmussen’s assistant Toby Sheets.

“He ran three hard races, in the big scheme of things it’s probably going to benefit us toward the middle and the end of the year,” Finley said.

Finley said he didn’t have a race picked out for Jaxon Traveler, but did say he would keep the horse sprinting.