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Umberto Rispoli, the leading rider at the current Santa Anita winter-spring meeting, underwent surgery on Sunday morning to stabilize a broken ankle sustained when he was unseated in a race at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, according to his agent Matt Nakatani.
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Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. had one word to describe his feelings the morning after sending out Skippylongstocking and White Abarrio to finish first and second respectively in Saturday’s $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational.
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Trainer Graham Motion will look to keep Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Turf winner Test Score at 1 1/8 miles for future races, and one of the mid-season targets could be the Grade 1 Turf Classic at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day.
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Franck Nivard moved into co-second all-time for wins by a driver in the Prix d'Amerique after winning his sixth edition of the event on Sunday at Vincennes Racecourse with upsetter Hokkaido Jiel.
Twenty-cent Pick 6 players will have a nice pot to shoot for when racing resumes Friday night (January 30) at the Meadowlands, as no winning tickets were sold on the wager on Saturday night (January 24), creating a carryover of $7,802.
Perfect Shot capped a five-win day at Sam Houston Race Park for Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen on Saturday when she was up for a half-length win over Standoutsensation in the Grade 3, $300,000 Houston Ladies Classic.
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On Saturday at Santa Anita, Nafisa extended her winning streak to three races with a comfortable victory in the Grade 3 La Canada Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles on dirt.
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It was a scene few people likely noticed, and transpired just minutes after Skippylongstocking had run down stablemate White Abarrio to give trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. a one-two finish in Saturday’s $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational. It was a moment that for Joseph summed up not only the entire emotion-filled day, but the nearly three pressure-packed months he had endured since White Abarrio was scratched in the post parade just minutes before the start of the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile.
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Test Score rallied four-wide in the stretch under Manny Franco and held off his South African-bred stablemate One Stripe by a neck to win the Pegasus World Cup Turf as Graham Motion trainees finished one-two in the Pegasus World Cup Turf.
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Destino d’Oro’s prior success at Gulfstream Park led trainer Brad Cox to choose running the newly turned 4-year-old filly in Saturday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf rather than next weekend’s Grade 3, $175,000 Endeavour Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.
