Telescope has a sore left shin and “won’t be running” in the Investec Derby at Epsom on June 1, his trainer Sir Michael Stoute revealed this morning.
The Galileo colt had been pushed out to around a 10/1 shot for the classic after looking laboured in a racecourse gallop at Lingfield on Wednesday which connections described as only “workmanlike”.
He has since developed a sore shin, and Stoute said today: “He has a bit of soreness on a left shin. He’s not giving us the right signs and won’t be running.”
Telescope missed an intend prep run in the Dante Stakes at York last week after grazes he sustained on his legs became infected. He has not raced since winning a Newmarket maiden last September.