Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist will not compete in the third leg of the Triple Crown.
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The 3-year-old thoroughbred has an elevated white blood cell count that will prevent him from running in the Belmont Stakes on June 11, according to the Daily Racing Form. The Derby winner has been under the weather recently, at times running a slight fever of 102 degrees (a normal temperature for a horse is 99-101 F).
As of Monday night, Nyquist's fever was down, according to the report, but the blood sample drawn that day came back with a high white blood cell count, which sometimes indicates an infection.