Kentucky Oaks winner Abel Tasman worked seven furlongs from the gate in 1:25.60 on Sunday morning at Santa Anita and had to avoid a horse who went wrong just in front of her shortly after she broke from the gate.

The work was in preparation for the Breeders' Cup Distaff on Nov. 3.

Abel Tasman, working in company, broke well from the gate and then was taken back off her company by jockey Mike Smith. About an eighth of a mile into the work, they had to avoid Vegas Vic, who was injured while pulling up after a work. His exercise rider, Jose Dominguez, fell to the track.

Fortunately, Vegas Vic and Dominguez had moved to the middle of the track after the work, so Abel Tasman flew by inside of them without incident.

Abel Tasman caught her workmate, Leading Score, nearing the wire -- six furlongs into the drill -- then went out an extra furlong.

"That went really well," Baffert said. "She sat back. She had been getting into a bad habit."

Baffert was referring to the way Abel Tasman got rank in the Cotillion and made a sudden, mid-race move. She had no inclination to behave like that in this work, in which she broke sharply and then settled.

"She left the gate!" Smith said, happy with how she came away from the gate.

"That horse broke down right in front of us," said Martin Garcia, who was on Leading Score.

Dominguez was taken away in an ambulance to Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. He was complaining of soreness in his neck and back but a paramedic attending to him said he had movement in his fingers and toes.

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