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Santa Anita: Goldencents nears end of break

Steve Andersen|Jan 17, 2014

Goldencents wins the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile

Tom Keyser Goldencents scores a front-running, 2 3/4-length win in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile.

Goldencents, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita in November, is nearing a return to training following a two-week break at a local farm, trainer Doug O’Neill said.

Goldencents finished seventh in the Cigar Mile at Aqueduct on Nov. 30. Following that race, there were discussions between O’Neill and owners Glenn Sorgenstein and Josh Kaplan about starting Goldencents in Saturday’s $200,000 Strub Stakes.

Those plans ended when Goldencents was taken out of training earlier this month.

“I kicked him out for two weeks,” O’Neill said. “We wanted to get away from the day in and day out grind.”

O’Neill said there are no race plans in coming months for Goldencents, who has won 5 of 13 starts and $1,994,000. Goldencents won the Santa Anita Derby here last April.

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