HORSE RACING Midway Road, Preakness runner-up, won't run in Belmont Stakes

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Midway Road, second to Funny Cide in the Preakness, won't run in the Belmont Stakes.
The colt will next run in the $300,000 1 1-8 -mile Ohio Derby on June 21, trainer Neil Howard.
"We feel like this is the best thing for our horse," Howard said Monday at Churchill Downs. "He made such a jump from an allowance race to a classic race, that we just thought we'd be smarter, knowing what we know about the horse and the way he's improving, to just be careful.
Midway Road, owned by Will Farish, has won three of eight career starts and earned $293,045.
Howard said the colt still has room to develop.
"We think he's going to be better in August, September and October," Howard said, "and it would be more prudent to look at other options than to go a mile and a half with him right now."
Hambletonian favorite retired
NEW YORK -- Pre-season Hambletonian favorite Broadway Hall was retired Monday because of an injury.
The 2002 Two-Year-Old Trotting Colt of the Year has a pulled hind ligament, trainer Jim Campbell said.
"He just wasn't himself the last two times we trained him," Campbell said. "We found the problem after he trained at the Meadowlands last Wednesday."
Broadway Hall went undefeated during his first season, winning all nine races and earning $436,790. He took a 1:56.4 record at Lexington's Red Mile and capped his career with a victory in the Breeders Crown in what turned out to be his final start. The Hambletonian is Aug. 2 at the Meadowlands.