Your Tent or Mine out for the season

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INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Your Tent or Mine, a top 2-year-old at the 2005 Hollywood Park fall meeting, will not start in Saturday's $100,000 Affirmed Handicap because of an injury that had ended any hope of a 3-year-old campaign, trainer Neil Drysdale said.

Drysdale did not elaborate on the nature of the injury but said that Your Tent or Mine would need surgery.

"It's knocked him out for the rest of the year," Drysdale said. "But he'll be fine."

Your Tent or Mine has not started since finishing second to Brother Derek in the Grade 1 Hollywood Futurity last December. He missed the Triple Crown and the early season preps to those races after suffering an abscess to his right front foot in late winter.

Owned by Anthony Speelman, Your Tent or Mine has won 2 of 3 starts and $173,250. He won his stakes debut last November in the Grade 3 Hollywood Prevue Stakes at seven furlongs.

The absence of Your Tent or Mine will leave the Grade 3 Affirmed Handicap with an even smaller than expected field. The race is for 3-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles.

Among probable starters are three horses that started in the Kentucky Derby - Point Determined (who ran ninth), Cause to Believe (13th), and A. P. Warrior (18th). Arson Squad, who won the San Pedro Stakes at Santa Anita on April 9 and was third in the Laz Barrera Memorial Stakes here on May 20, is another probable starter. He will make his first start around two turns in the Affirmed.