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Mired in a career-worst slump and winless on the day, Flavien Prat found a way to win Saturday’s 10th and final race at Santa Anita, as he surged late aboard the Phil D’Amato-trained Earls Rock to win the $100,000 Thunder Road Stakes (G3) by a nose while getting a flat mile on turf in 1:34.05.
The $3 million Pegasus World Cup highlights this weekend's live racing action, with 12 horses expected to line up for the 1 1/8-mile contest at Gulfstream Park on Saturday.
Stablemates have occupied the top two spots in the $1-million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational (G1) for two years running and, if the local prep for one of the richest grass races in North America is any indication, a third year is not out of the question.
The Gulfstream Park Championship Meet goes into full swing this weekend, with five graded stakes on Saturday's 11-race New Year's Eve program.
Idle since mid-May, the Michael McCarthy-trained Queen Goddess, a Grade 1 winner a year ago on dirt, heads a wide-open field of 11 fillies and mares three going a mile and one eighth on turf Saturday in Santa Anita’s Grade 3, $100,000 Robert J. Frankel Stakes.