Recepta Injured During Training at Saratoga
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Recepta winning the 2015 Noble Damsel.
Graded stakes winner Recepta, co-owned and co-bred by John Phillips, was injured during training at Saratoga Race Course on Friday morning.
According to trainer Jimmy Toner, Recepta was galloping on the main track when the exercise rider felt something off in her right hind leg. She was vanned off the track and transported to Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital for further examination. Standing on the backstretch to watch the 5-year-old mare, Toner had no further information about the type or extent of the injury, talking minutes after the incident.
"I was watching her and she went around the (final turn), and you can't really see her from here," he said. "I didn't see her come around and then the lights and siren went off."
Bred by Phillips in partnership with Hank Snowden and campaigned by Phillips and Pam Gartin, Recepta finished second by a nose in the Diana (gr. IT) on Saratoga's opening weekend.
Out of the Honor Grades mare Honor Bestowed, Recepta is by 2004 Eclipse champion sprinter Speightstown . She won the Noble Damsel Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Belmont Park last September and is multiple graded-stakes placed, a runner-up to Celestine in the Longines Just a Game (gr. IT) on the Belmont Stakes undercard.