BALTIMORE – On an otherwise quiet morning amidst the chaos hovering over Saturday’s Preakness Stakes, France Go de Ina, the Japanese invader, gave his connections a bit of a scare at the conclusion of his training session Wednesday at Pimlico. Shortly after completing a four-furlong workout that Daily Racing Form timed in 49.96 seconds, exercise rider Masaki Takano fell off the horse. Riderless, France Go de Ina galloped out to the middle of the clubhouse turn. After evading outriders initially, France Go de Ina stopped on the turn and was ultimately corralled by an outrider. France Go de Ina was brought back to the paddock where Takano got back aboard, and the horse and rider took several turns around the paddock before returning to his barn. Takano was uninjured. Takano “slipped a little bit from his stirrup on his left side and lost his balance,” trainer Hideyuki Mori said through an interpreter. “The horse is fine.” As has been the case since he arrived last Friday, France Go de Ina went to the track shortly after 10 a.m, after all others had trained. After backing up to the seven-furlong pole, Takano turned the horse around and France Go de Ina broke into a gallop. Daily Racing Form timed the exercise starting at the five-furlong pole, with France Go de Ina going his opening eighth in 13.84 seconds, though Mori later said the work began at the half-mile pole. :: DRF's Preakness Headquarters: Contenders, latest news, past performances, analysis, and more From the half-mile pole to the quarter pole, France Go de Ina went in 24.72 seconds. He went from the quarter to the wire in 25.24 seconds. “He breezed really well, they’re very happy with that,” said Kate Hunter, who served as Mori’s interpreter. “Luckily, or unluckily, the rider fell off after the finish line so he was able to finish his workout.” France Go de Ina, a Kentucky-bred son of Will Take Charge, has two wins from four starts, all on dirt in Japan. In his only race this year, he finished sixth, beaten 10 1/2 lengths, in the UAE Derby after breaking slowly. Joel Rosario rode France Go de Ina in that race and Mori is glad he was available to ride him back in the Preakness. Rosario had been the regular rider of Concert Tour, but those connections opted to go with Mike Smith. Mori said, “It was important to have a rider who knows the horse, especially since he can be a bit late out of the gate and to make sure that doesn’t happen again.” France Go de Ina was going to school in the gate Friday with an assistant starter standing in the stall with him. Rosario is 0 for 6 in the Preakness, but he has three seconds, including rides on Everfast, second at 29-1 in 2019, and Tale of Verve, second at 28-1 in 2015. :: Join DRF Bets and get ready to watch and wager on the Preakness with a $250 first deposit bonus  Mori said he also is hoping to run France Go de Ina in the Belmont Stakes on June 5. The New York Racing Association is offering a $1 million bonus to a Japanese-based horse that wins the Belmont Stakes. The Japanese-based Lani competed in all three Triple Crown races in 2016, running ninth in the Derby, fifth in the Preakness and third in the Belmont. Aside from France Go De Ina’s work, it was a morning of routine gallops for the other nine contenders Wednesday at Pimlico. Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit and his Bob Baffert-trained stablemate Concert Tour both galloped about 1 1/2 miles Wednesday morning. Medina Spirit appeared to go at a more leisurely pace than his stablemate, who hasn’t run since a third-place finish in the Arkansas Derby on April 10. Assistant trainer Jimmy Barnes is deputizing for Baffert, who has decided not to come to Baltimore given the swirl of controversy surrounding him regarding Medina Spirit’s positive test for betamethasone following the Derby. Barnes said both horses “are good and fresh.” The forecast for Saturday is terrific, with mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-70s.