Musket Man done for the year

7/5/2009 2:08 PM  | bloodhorse.com
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Multiple graded winner Musket Man, who made a name for himself during this year’s Triple Crown run, will miss Monmouth Park’s Haskell Invitational Stakes (gr. I) Aug. 2 and the rest of the racing season with a bone bruise in his left front foot.

“It’s nothing major,” said Derek Ryan, who conditions the colt for Eric Fein and Vic Carlson.  “We could run him in the Haskell, but that extra kick he gives in the stretch probably won’t be there.  It wouldn’t be fair to him.

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