I’ll Have Another Retired From Racing After Belmont Scratch

I’ll Have Another was scratched from the Belmont Stakes and retired from racing a day before he was to try to become the first Triple Crown winner since 1978, his trainer and owner said.

The horse, which won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, the first two races in the Triple Crown, had swelling in his left front leg yesterday, trainer Doug O’Neill said. After looking “perfect” this morning, the swelling returned during a training session and a scan showed “the start of some tendinitis,” the trainer said.