Saratoga Sinner will miss Derby due to knee chip

Holy Bull S. (G3) winner SARATOGA SINNER (Harlan's Holiday) has been

sidelined by a chip in his left knee and will miss the Kentucky Derby (G1).

Trainer Eddie Kenneally said the colt will be out of action until the summer.

"It's extremely disappointing," Kenneally told The Courier-Journal. "It's

hard to get one good enough to win some of these major Derby preps. And then to

win one, you still have to be lucky enough to keep them sound. We had one that

was good enough, but we can't take him there because of this little bone chip we

have to take out.

"He'll return 100 percent, that's the good part, and he'll be a nice horse,"

Kenneally added. "It won't shorten his career or take away from his ability."

After wrapping up his juvenile season with a close third in a Churchill Downs

maiden special weight event, Saratoga Sinner opened his three-year-old campaign

with a smart 1 1/2-length maiden score in a 1 1/8-mile event at Gulfstream Park

on January 7. The Lally Stable colorbearer jumped right into stakes competition

in Saturday's Holy Bull and upset nine rivals at 12-1 odds, winning the

nine-furlong race by three parts of a length.

The Kentucky-bred colt has compiled an overall mark of 4-2-0-1, $116,495.