Flying Mohawk will not run in Friday's Grade 1 Belmont Derby at Saratoga after undergoing emergency colic surgery early Thursday morning, co-owner Jayson Werth announced via X (formerly Twitter).

Final Gambit debuted on turf and Flying Mohawk made his first five starts on turf. Both were supposed to get back on turf in Friday’s Grade 1 $750,000 Belmont Derby but Flying Mohawk will scratch.

Flying Mohawk returned to the work tab on the Churchill Downs dirt May 18 with an easy half-mile in :49, the 37th fastest of 75 workers at the distance. "He worked great," Beckman said.

A prominent local carrier in the 1940s and ’50s, Mohawk served New York State and the Northeast. First Officer Joseph Adamowicz wore this uniform while flying Mohawk DC-3s. Gift of Joseph Adamowicz ...