Favourite for next month’s $3million Magic Millions 2YO Classic, Extreme Choice colt Paradoxium has suffered a bout of travel sickness and has been scratched from the Group III BRC BJ McLachlan Stakes at Eagle Farm this Saturday.
The Bjorn Baker trained colt was a brilliant winner of the Wyong Magic Millions 2YO Classic and was looking to tune up for his grand final on January 17 in Brisbane with his trainer Bjorn Baker confirming the colt is now in doubt.
"He's got travel sickness so he's out for Saturday and he's had to be treated," Baker told Racenet.
"We'll just monitor how he goes in the next day or two and then go from there.
"It's one step at a time. He's out for Saturday, and we just don't know (about the Magic Millions).
"Let's stick to the facts: he's got a temperature, he's flat, he's been treated, he's out for Saturday.
"At this stage he's still in the Magic Millions but we will assess the situation on a daily, if not hourly, basis."
Baker still has two other key runners for the rich 2YO race at the Gold Coast in Warwoven and Masvingo, who is an acceptor at Randwick on Saturday.
