Trainer Jerry O’Dwyer posted a video on social media Sunday morning showing Needs Supervision bucking and playing in a little round pen outside the Fair Grounds barn in which she’s housed. A video, expanding on the cliché, must be worth well over a thousand words, and it was clear Needs Supervision had bounced out of her Saturday win in the $150,000 Silverbulletday Stakes full of life.

“She’s bright-eyed today, looks great,” O’Dwyer said. “She’ll have two days [of] walking, maybe three, depending on her energy level.”

Hog Creek Hustle, who ran well finishing second in the Lecomte, will try War of Will again in the Risen Star if all goes well, trainer Vickie Foley said Sunday.

“It looks like he came out of the race good. We’re looking forward to moving on to the Risen Star,” Foley said.

Though barely 12 hours earlier he had run the best race of his career in winning the Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds by four lengths, War of Will on Sunday morning still had plenty of will to return to war, from all reports.

“He acts like he didn’t even really run,” trainer Mark Casse said Sunday after departing New Orleans for Florida, where he spends most of the winter.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Wet weather on the South Florida coast Sunday morning resulted in less-than-perfect track conditions for two participants in Saturday’s Pegasus World Cup program - Something Awesome, one of the outsiders in the $9 million World Cup Invitational, and Yoshida, the likely favorite for the $7 million World Cup Turf.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Stormy Liberal, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3, will start in Saturday’s $150,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint at five furlongs, trainer Peter Miller said on Sunday.

Stormy Liberal was second in his only start since the BC Turf Sprint, the Grade 3 Joe Hernandez Stakes on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita on Jan. 1. Miller was critical of the way he prepared Stormy Liberal for the Hernandez, saying he “undertrained” the 7-year-old gelding.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Pick a graded stakes at Santa Anita in the next few months, and chances are a leading contender for that event had a workout on Sunday.

On Sunday, there were 312 recorded workouts – 260 on the main track, 51 on the training track, and one on turf. At times, particularly immediately after the track was renovated, it was difficult to keep up with all the action.

The most prominent runner was Game Winner, the undefeated 3-year-old who is expected to be named champion 2-year-old male of 2018 at Thursday’s Eclipse Awards in Florida.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Jorge Navarro was definitely not a happy man after watching his sprint star, X Y Jet, get run into the ground in a suicidal speed battle with Ray’swarrior in defense of his title in Saturday’s $100,000 Sunshine Millions Sprint. But Navarro remain composed when reflecting on the turn of events that led to his horse’s fourth-place finish in his 2019 debut.

HALLANDALE, Fla. – City of Light, Audible, and Gunnevera – the top challengers to Accelerate in the Pegasus World Cup – were out for serious breezes Saturday morning, when virtually all of the top contenders for the $9 million extravaganza had their final pre-race works.

City of Light went in 47.20 seconds at Gulfstream, site of the third running of the Pegasus here Saturday, Jan. 26. Meanwhile, Audible went in 48.40 at the Palm Beach Downs training center, and Gunnevera went six furlongs in 1:13.20 at Gulfstream Park West.

ARCADIA, Calif. – In a little more than a week, Accelerate will leave the care of trainer John Sadler and head to stud duty at Lane’s End Farm. Prior to that will be his final race, the Pegasus World Cup next Saturday at Gulfstream Park. Friday will be his final gallop.

All those markers of a career winding down are bubbling just below the surface for Sadler, who tried to keep his attention focused on the task at hand Saturday morning at Santa Anita when Accelerate had his final work for the Pegasus in what was the final work of his career.

Jockey Manny Esquivel broke his collarbone on the left side during a Thursday training accident at Parx Racing and is likely to be sidelined six to eight weeks, according to his agent, Al Dellape.

Esquivel, fifth in the Parx rider standings in 2018, had just finished breezing a horse for trainer Danny Velazquez when “the ground appeared to break out from under the horse, who fell,” according to Dellape, who added that the horse was not injured.

Esquivel was taken to the hospital and released. He is scheduled to see an orthopedic doctor Friday.