(Edited Monmouth Park report)

OCEANPORT, N.J. – IZOD Haskell Invitational winner Lookin At Lucky will miss the Aug. 28 Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York after the Smart Strike colt developed a fever Aug. 3, two days after the most impressive race of his young career, trainer Bob Baffert said Wednesday.

“He had a temperature of 102.5 degrees, and the blood work showed he definitely has something,” Baffert said. “They treated him aggressively and the temperature came down and has not gone back up. But they gave him penicillin, so there is no way he could make the Travers.” A horse can’t run for 30 days after receiving the medication.

Baffert said it was a stroke of luck that he kept Lookin At Lucky at Monmouth Park following the Aug. 1 Haskell because it would have been a worse situation if the colt had been shipped while having a fever. Baffert had previously considered shipping Lookin At Lucky to Saratoga, although he was not fully committed to running in the Travers.