Kentucky Derby winner, Nyquist, is out of consideration for the June 11 Belmont Stakes (gr. I), said his trainer, Doug O’Neill, the morning of May 24.

“He is officially out,” O’Neill said. “Right about the time we got his blood work back this morning, which showed an elevated white blood count, his temperature went back up. We just have to get strong with the antibiotics and get him right. He’s under the weather now, which we all get once in a while. Thank God it’s nothing leg-related.

“We’ll live to fight another day.” 

Nyquist lost his unbeaten record when he was downed in sloppy conditions at the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore.