When Instinct D’Oro won a nondescript $20,000 claimer at Los Alamitos last Saturday, it was little more than the result of the day’s seventh race to most observers.

For winning rider Edgar Payeras, it was a welcome achievement less than an hour after being unseated and taken off the track in an ambulance.

Payeras, 30, was aboard the longshot Takamakahara in the day’s fifth race when a rival, Smiling Tony, drifted to the inside and caused Takamakahara to clip heels. Payeras escaped injury and rode the following race.

“I was very lucky,” Payeras said.

Full Serrano, second in the Grade 1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar in his American stakes debut on Aug. 31, was recently diagnosed with a temperature that will prevent the 5-year-old Argentine-bred from starting in the Grade 1 California Crown at Santa Anita on Sept. 28.

Trainer John Sadler on Thursday that Full Serrano has recovered from the brief illness and will resume racetrack exercise on Friday. The setback has led to an uncertain racing schedule for Full Serrano this fall.

Facing a significant deficit in the purse account, Santa Anita has reduced overnight purses for its fall meeting, which runs from Sept. 27 to Oct. 27.

The reduction continues a troubling trend that has led to lower purses at two other Southern California tracks this year – Del Mar and the Los Alamitos Thoroughbred meetings.

According to the Santa Anita condition book, which details proposed races for the five-week meeting, a maiden race will be worth $54,000, down from $61,000 in the autumn of 2023.

Fibonaccis Ride won her debut in a maiden race for California-bred 2-year-old fillies at Los Alamitos on Sunday, giving owner and breeder James Shenouda and trainer Cesar DeAlba the hope she will be racing in stakes very soon.

Fibonaccis Ride, who was ridden by Diego Herrera, led throughout a five-furlong race, drawing away by six lengths as the 2-1 second choice in a field of six.

The victory could lead to a start in the $175,000 Golden State Juvenile Fillies for statebreds at seven furlongs at Del Mar on Nov. 1, the first day of the Breeders’ Cup races.

Anarchist, the multiple graded stakes winner and recent world traveler, is a candidate for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Del Mar on Nov. 2, trainer Doug O’Neill said on Wednesday.

Anarchist finished third by eight lengths in the $941,400 Korea Cup Sprint in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 8, the 5-year-old horse’s first trip away from North America. Anarchist recently returned to O’Neill base at Santa Anita.

“He’s on the track and he looks well,” O’Neill said. “We’ll probably try the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.”

Legacy Downs, one of six tracks running live race dates in Nebraska this year, opens its four-day meet Friday with a four-race card, including a $20,000 stakes race for certified Nebraska-breds.

Legacy, which is located in Lincoln, is one of two tracks in Nebraska running under the brand of WarHorse Casino, one of the new casino operators in Nebraska authorized under a 2020 referendum tying casino licenses to racetracks. WarHorse is owned and operated by the state’s Winnebago Tribe.