Recepta continues to recover from a career-ending injury

According to trainer Jimmy Toner, graded stakes winner Recepta is doing well at the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Saratoga Springs as she continues to recover from a career-ending injury.

 

The 5-year-old daughter of Speightstown, owned by John Phillips and Pam Gartin, suffered a fractured pelvis while galloping over the main track at Saratoga on August 5.

"Our plan is to keep her here for a couple of months until she's okay to move and then send her back home to Kentucky. So far, she has been a good patient, she is handling everything well," the veteran trainer said this morning. "They love her out there [the staff at the equine hospital]. They give her plenty of attention and plenty of peppermints so they are taking good care of her."

Recepta was narrowly beaten by the Chad Brown-trained Dacita while seeking her first Grade 1 victory in the Diana Stakes on July 23 at the Spa, a race which Toner has won three times.

"Needless to say, when things like this happen, you get all upset, especially one as sweet as she is." Toner added. "I've been over there a few times. They had to move her because she chewed a hole in one of the stalls. She's in a concrete stall now so she's a little upset that she can't chew in there, but she's doing fine." Toner said.

Recepta holds a 5-3-4 career record from seventeen starts with just under $700,000 in earnings.

 

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Chad Brown, runner-up to Todd Pletcher in the Saratoga trainer standings each year since 2010, was ahead of the perennial Allen Jerkens training title champion, 21-16, at the halfway point of the 40-day meet.

Both Brown and Pletcher trailed the streaking Kiaran McLaughlin through the first seven days of the meet. Pletcher took his only lead thus far, 11-10, on Day 12, Thursday, August 4, but Brown came back with three winners on August 5 and four winners on August 6, to go ahead 17-12.

At the midway point in 2011, Pletcher had 21 winners (and a seven-win lead over Brown) en route to his record 38 wins for the meet. 

After Day 20, defending riding title holder Irad Ortiz, Jr. had 29 victories, good for a five-win advantage over both his younger brother, Jose, and Hall of Famer John Velazquez, who had 20 wins apiece.