Tax getting a break after rough Pegasus run

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Tax, ninth of 10 in the Pegasus World Cup last Saturday, won’t race again for at least a couple of months, trainer Danny Gargan said.

“We’re not going overseas for one of the big-money races, that’s for sure,” Gargan said. “He won’t run again until something like the Oaklawn Handicap or Ben Ali, one of those type races.”

Tax was the 4-1 third choice in the Pegasus, a 1 1/8-mile race in which the 4-year-old gelding “didn’t get away very well and then got jostled around pretty good,” Gargan said.

“He’s pretty temperamental, and if things don’t go his way, it’s not going to work out,” he said. “But he did come out of the race in great shape, and I’m happy with how he looks and everything. I just can’t run him very often because that’s the way he is. I think the longer I give him, the better he’ll run next time.”