Another of New Zealand's elite juveniles from last season it set to miss the first group ones of spring.
But trainer Nigel Tiley isn't panicking with high-class filly Play That Song.
The Karaka Million runner-up joins her conqueror from that $1 million race in Cool Aza Beel on the sidelines for spring and potentially the rest of 2020, meaning both will miss the group one Guineas races at Riccarton in November.
Play That Song, who won three of her five starts last season including the Eclipse Stakes at Ellerslie, has had a small bone chip removed from a leg and while she won't be out for long the early fillies races or even features like the Hawkes Bay Guineas as now off the table.
"She will be fine and it won't cost her a lot of time but just enough to miss those spring races," says Tiley.
"We have an obvious aim in January in the Karaka Mile ($1 million) so we can aim her at that and there is plenty of racing after that.