OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Drum Roll Please, who won the Jerome Stakes by 3 3/4 lengths at Aqueduct on Jan. 6, is off the Triple Crown trail after coming out of a Friday morning workout at Belmont Park with an injury, owner Al Gold said Friday afternoon. Gold said following the in-company workout, which was timed in 49.55 seconds for a half-mile, Drum Roll Please was off in a hind leg and X-rays showed an apical medial sesamoid fracture of his left hind ankle. Gold said Drum Roll Please will have surgery, likely in Maryland next week, and will be sidelined until the summer. “Three months to recover, three months training to get him back,” Gold said. Drum Roll Please, a son of Hard Spun, made five starts, winning a maiden race in his third start on Oct. 6 at Aqueduct. After running a respectable third behind Dornoch and Sierra Leone in the Grade 2 Remsen on Dec. 2, Drum Roll Please was a decisive winner of the Jerome Stakes. Drum Roll Please was being pointed to the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers at Aqueduct on Feb. 3. Gold noted that Drum Roll Please joins Air of Defiance on the sidelines for the spring classics. Air of Defiance, a six-length maiden winner at Keeneland last October after a runner-up finish to Fierceness in an Aug. 25 maiden race at Saratoga, was injured in November during a workout at Churchill Downs. :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. Drum Roll Please was an individual betting interest in the Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 3 that opened Friday at noon and closes Sunday at 6 p.m. Drum Roll Please was one of several stakes horses to put in workouts Friday morning for the Cox barn. Comparative, who won the Ladies Stakes on Jan. 6 at Aqueduct, went a half-mile in 50.22 seconds by herself. She is being considered for $150,000 Heavenly Prize on Feb. 10. The Cox-trained 3-year-olds Bergen and Air Cav each put in solo workouts Friday morning in advance of the $100,000 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes, a six-furlong race at Aqueduct on Jan. 27. Bergen, a son of Liam’s Map who in two starts has a maiden win and a second in an allowance on Nov. 25, went a half-mile in 48.22 seconds. It was the second fastest of 122 recorded half-mile breezes Friday morning. “I like the way he did it,” said Dustin Dugas, Cox’s Belmont Park-based assistant. “He seems like a horse that’s very eager. He had a pretty aggressive breeze in 47 and change last week and the week before that he went in company with Comparative.” Air Cav went an easier half-mile in 50.22 seconds. Air Cav, a son of Mitole, won his debut at Horseshoe Indianapolis in August before finishing fifth behind his stablemate Timberlake in the Grade 1 Champagne going a mile on Oct. 7. “I like him cutting back [in distance],” Dugas said. “We threw him to the wolves last out in the Champagne.” Dugas reported that Gin Gin came out of her one-length victory in the $100,000 Busanda Stakes on Jan. 13 in good order. Her next start has not yet been set though she would be eligible for the $200,000 Busher Stakes, a one-turn mile race, here on March 2. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.