![]() on ESPN.com | Pleasantly Perfect to race next year Brad Free Daily Racing Form ARCADIA, Calif. -- Breeders' Cup Classic winner Pleasantly Perfect will race next year at age 6, according to trainer Richard Mandella. "I would guess I will give him a break and point to the [Santa Anita] Handicap preps, or to Dubai," Mandella said Tuesday. "I plan to rest them all and point for the Santa Anita meet. They've done enough. If you keep going, you end up with nothing." Mandella was referring to his seven Breeders' Cup starters. Along with Pleasantly Perfect, the winners were Halfbridled (Juvenile Fillies), Johar (Turf), and Action This Day (Juvenile). The only immediate certainty was that Siphonizer, 10th-place finisher in the Juvenile, would have throat surgery after displacing his soft palate for the second time in a race. Mandella said Siphonizer would undergo a myectomy in order to correct the problem. He also said that Minister Eric came out of his runner-up finish in the Juvenile with sore shins and would need two months off. It will not affect his 3-year-old campaign. Olmadavor's fifth-place finish in an allowance race Sunday has given Mandella second thoughts about sending him to Aqueduct for the Grade 1 Cigar Mile. "If he would have won, I would have been sure to, but now I'll probably run in the Native Diver" on Nov. 6 at Hollywood, he said. | |||||||||
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