GI Man o'War S. winner Red Rocks (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will be forced to miss Saturday's GI Sword Dancer Invitational at Saratoga because of filling in his left hock. “Thursday afternoon he had filling in his left hock and we felt like we needed to treat it,” explained trainer Mark Hennig. “That, and the prospect of running over soft turf with the possibility of further aggravating it, led us to that decision [to scratch].” Hennig took over training duties for Red Rocks last month, just after the 2006 GI Breeders' Cup Turf winner defeated Curlin in the July 12 Man o'War for trainer Brian Meehan.
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