Multiple Grade 3 Winner My Boy Jack Sidelined

Multiple grade 3 winner My Boy Jack will be sidelined 60-90 days to have bone chips surgically removed from his front ankles and be aimed at a 2019 campaign at age 4 for owners Don't Tell My Wife Stables, Monomoy Stables, and West Point Thoroughbreds.

A 3-year-old son of Creative Cause  who finished eighth of nine in the July 7 Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes (G1T), My Boy Jack has won three of 12 starts and earned $729,145. Trained by Keith Desormeaux, the colt's three wins have all come in stakes—Southwest and Stonestreet Lexington Stakes, both grade 3 events this year, and the Zuma Beach Stakes on turf at age 2. Previous to his Belmont Derby effort, My Boy Jack was fifth in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1).

"He had chips in both front ankles," said Bradley Weisbord of BSW Bloodstock, which manages the interests of Sol Kumin's Monomoy Stables, noting the injury was detected following the Belmont Derby showing. "He has always been competitive, and he was not competitive in the Belmont Derby. That was the only bad race he ever ran so something definitely was brewing. So we'll take chips out and go on with him next year."

In addition to his stakes victories, My Boy Jack ran second in the Del Mar Juvenile Turf Stakes last year, and finished third in the TwinSpires.com Louisiana Derby (G2) and Sham Stakes (G3).

Offered for sale as a weanling by his Kentucky breeder, Brereton C. Jones, My Boy Jack was bought back for $14,000 at the 2015 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. The colt was next consigned to the 2016 Keeneland September Yearling Sale by Legacy Bloodstock, where he was purchased by Don't Tell My Wife Stable for $20,000.