Last year's Florida Derby (G1) winner Tappan Street, who successfully returned from an eight-month layoff to win Dec. 19 at Gulfstream Park, worked for the first time since that victory Jan. 3 in preparation for the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) Jan. 24.
Equibase recorded the half-mile breeze at the Payson Park Training Center in :49 3/5, the 15th fastest of 48 works at the distance.
"It was a really good move, by himself, :49.2 and 1:02.2," said trainer Brad Cox. "I thought the track was much deeper after the break, up there (at Payson Park)."
A 4-year-old son of Into Mischief , Tappan Street was sidelined with a condylar fracture in his right front leg that caused him to miss the Kentucky Derby (G1) and most of his 3-year-old season. In his first start since the Florida Derby, the bay colt returned to the races last month for owners WinStar Farm, CHC, Cold Press Racing, and Qatar Racing and won an allowance optional claimer by 1 length under jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. In winning the mile race, Tappan Street defeated five rivals as the heavy favorite.
Another Cox trainee preparing at Payson Park for the Pegasus World Cup is unbeaten graded stakes winner Disco Time, who breezed 5 furlongs in 1:01 Jan. 2.
"Disco Time went lights out," Cox said. "He's really on it. Super pleased with how he's breezed the last few weeks and how he physically looks."
