Ottinho won't go in Peter Pan or Preakness

Ottinho, runner-up in the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes, will not run in either the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes on Saturday at Aqueduct or the Preakness Stakes at Laurel Park on May 16, trainer Chad Brown said.

Brown said Ottinho missed a work on the last weekend of April due to a foot issue, then worked a slow half-mile in 52 seconds by himself Saturday morning at Churchill Downs. Brown did not have an immediate plan for the horse.

Brown said that Tariff Mindset, a horse he was originally planning to run in the Peter Pan, is on the shelf for a little while.

Brown did enter Growth Equity in the Peter Pan, the traditional prep for the Belmont Stakes. The Peter Pan only drew a field of six, three of whom are not nominated to the Triple Crown.

Growth Equity, a son of Nyquist, is coming off a maiden win going one mile at Aqueduct on March 20.

Trendsetter, the Grade 3 Lexington Stakes winner, is the most accomplished of the sextet entered in the Peter Pan.

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