SANTA ANITA : Pincay to Be Sidelined Again With 11th Collarbone Injury

Laffit Pincay was certain he knew what the problem was immediately after he picked himself up off the Santa Anita turf course.

The pinch he felt in his left shoulder told the world’s second-winningest rider that he probably had another broken collarbone. Pincay certainly qualifies as an expert in the area.

X-rays taken at Arcadia Methodist Hospital confirmed Pincay’s 11th collarbone injury. He will meet with Dr. Robert Kerlan on Monday and is expected to be sidelined from four to six weeks.

Pincay was next to last on 11-1 shot La Fresa in the first race when the 4-year-old roan filly suddenly started slipping. She lost her balance and went down, sliding along the grass while Pincay landed heavily on his left shoulder.

“I’m fine,” Pincay said later from home. “There’s nothing you can do. I just have to wait until it heals.

“She just got tangled up and fell. I didn’t have any warning. At first, I thought (La Fresa) might have broken her leg, but she got up right away and started running around like nothing had happened.

“When I was on the ground, I thought I was fine. As soon as I got up, I felt a pinch and I knew if it wasn’t broken, there was something wrong.”

Pincay’s most recent collarbone injuries occurred in 1990. He was hurt early in the year when driving a sulky in a charity harness race at Los Alamitos, then was injured during the Hollywood Park fall meeting when a horse broke down shortly after the finish of a race.

About two hours after A.P. Indy won the Santa Anita Derby, Another Review upstaged him, at least as far as time goes, in the $275,600 San Bernardino Handicap.

Running on Lasix for the first time, Another Review, a 4-year-old Buckaroo colt, defeated Defensive Play and nine others by three lengths in 1:47 1/5 for the 1 1/8 miles--two full seconds faster than A.P. Indy.

Closest to pacesetter Loach throughout under Kent Desormeaux, the 16-1 shot took over the lead approaching the eighth pole and went on to his first victory in five races since coming to California. He had won three of 15 on the East Coast.

“He didn’t bleed badly in his last start (he finished fifth March 5), just trickled a bit,” trainer Chris Speckert said. “He worked super with Lasix. His sister (No Review) was a bad bleeder, too, but not with Lasix.”

Ibero, the 8-5 favorite, was well-positioned close to the pace by Alex Solis, but he faded to sixth. “He’s had some tough races and he’s tried hard in all of them,” Solis said. “Maybe they took something out of him.”

Defensive Play was 1 1/4 lengths ahead of Loach. Then came Reign Road, Kotashaan, Ibero, Music Prospector, Last Lion, Flying Continental, Perfectly Proud and Mr. Integrity.

Although the margin was much smaller, Heart Of Joy’s victory in Saturday’s $103,475 Las Cienegas Breeders’ Cup Handicap came as easily as her eight-length victory in the B. Thoughtful on March 11.

The 5-year-old Lypheor mare, the 7-10 favorite, was geared down by Chris McCarron in the final sixteenth of a mile after she had disposed of the pacesetters. At the wire, she had 2 1/2 lengths on 18-1 shot Sheltered View and completed about 6 1/2 furlongs on turf in 1:12 3/5.

Owned by Mr. and Mrs. John Mabee’s Golden Eagle Farm, Heart Of Joy is perfect in two tries over Santa Anita’s unique hillside layout, and she might make another start before the meeting ends April 27. She might return against males in the $100,000 San Simeon Handicap on April 25.

“I wouldn’t be opposed to running her with the boys,” trainer Gary Jones said. “Mr. Mabee has said ‘let’s keep sprinting her.’ I don’t think she was at her best today. I didn’t do much of anything with her since her last race because I was afraid she was going to bounce (regress). I trained her real lightly.”

Continuing to voice their displeasure with Hollywood Park’s decision to race 13 Friday nights and mix in the simulcasting of quarter horse and harness racing with live thoroughbred action, the California Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Assn. held a general membership meeting after the races Saturday night at Santa Anita.

In an open letter to the California Horse Racing Board published on the back page of Sunday’s Daily Racing Form, the CHBPA took exception to some of Hollywood Park’s figures supporting Friday night racing.

According to the letter, the average handle per week in 1991 during the six weeks there was no Friday night racing was $31,762,577. During the five weeks when racing occurred on Friday nights, the average was $31,853,952. Excluded were the weeks that included Memorial Day and the Fourth of July.

This meant that the handle increase was $91,375 per week, which, according to the letter, figured to additional purses of $4,567 per week, hardly worthwhile considering the lengthy work day created by Friday night racing.

Horse Racing Notes

Jockey Pat Valenzuela won three times Saturday and trainer Vladimir Cerin had two victories. . . . Kostroma, who will be making her first start since finishing sixth in the Matriarch on Dec. 1, is the 5-2 morning line favorite for today’s $250,000 Santa Barbara Handicap at 1 1/4 miles on the turf. The second choice at 3-1 is 1991 Eclipse Award winner Miss Alleged, who was third in the San Luis Obispo in her first start of 1992. Then comes Polemic (7-2), Colour Chart (4-1), Free At Last (5-1), Appealing Missy (10-1) and Re Toss (20-1)