Mind Control Scratched From Breeders' Futurity

Red Oak Stable and Madaket Stables’ Hopeful Stakes (G1) winner Mind Control was declared out of the Oct. 6 Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity Stakes (G1) at Keeneland because of an elevated temperature.

“We came in yesterday at 5 in the morning and his temperature was 102, and it stayed that way until 4 in the afternoon and we treated him,” said Rick Sacco, brother of trainer Greg Sacco. “By 6 o’clock, he was fine.”

Mind Control was the 7-2 morning-line favorite for the Breeders’ Futurity, a “Win and You’re In” race for the $2 million Sentient Jet Breeders Cup Juvenile (G1) to be run Nov. 2 at Churchill Downs.

“He’s perfect this morning,” Sacco said. “We did bloodwork on him again this morning and if it comes back perfect he will be on a 6 a.m. Tex Sutton flight back to Monmouth tomorrow and train up to the Breeders’ Cup.”