Alpha won't face I'll Have Another

Published May. 31, 2012 1:00 a.m. ET

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Kentucky Derby also-ran Alpha will miss the Belmont Stakes on June 9 because of a fever.

Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin on Thursday said the colt ran a temperature Tuesday. He has been fine the past two days, but it's ''too high a temperature too close to the race.''

Before finishing 12th in the Derby, Alpha won the Count Fleet and the Withers and finished second in the Wood Memorial.