Published: October 9, 2012 2:17 pm ET
Two of the top three-year-old pacers in North America - A Rocknroll Dance and Bolt The Duer - came up short in Saturday's Tattersalls Pace. Reports indicate that the possibility of both colts racing in the 2012 Breeders Crown at Woodbine Racetrack is now in question.
The race was won impressively by Sweet Lou, who held off a game Hillbilly Hanover to win in 1:48.1. A Rocknroll Dance finished seventh while Bolt The Duer finished 12th and last.
According to the trainer and co-owner of A Rocknroll Dance, Jim Mulinix, that colt had throat surgery on Monday at Rood & Riddle Equine Clinic in Lexington, Kentucky.
"We scoped him and they said he didn't flip his palate, he just choked,
