Art to miss rest of season

COVENTRY Stakes winner Art Connoisseur has sustained a leg injury that will keep him out for the rest of the season.

The setback explains his poor performance in the rearranged Gimcrack Stakes at Newbury on Friday in which he could only finish eighth behind Shaweel.

“He has sustained an injury to his off fore cannon bone and although it is not too serious it would be serious enough to explain his poor run on Friday and is enough to keep him off the track for the rest of the season,” the Newmarket trainer told his website, www.michaelbellracing.com.