Barbara D. Livingston
Kentucky Derby runner-up Two Phil's could make his next start in the Belmont Stakes or Matt Winn.
Two Phil’s, runner-up in the Kentucky Derby, will skip the Preakness, his trainer Larry Rivelli said Tuesday.
The news was first reported by Jim O’Donnell in the (Chicago) Daily Herald.
Rivelli said Tuesday the two-week turnaround from the Derby to the Preakness was “way too soon.”
“He came back great, but it’s 11 days from today,” Rivelli said Tuesday morning by phone from Hawthorne. “He just got home, he settled in, looks great, but it’s way too soon. There’s no pressure to do it. I might not have run even if he won, which would have been a bigger deal.”