Pioneer Prince Workout Report

Pioneer Prince worked a bullet five furlongs out of the gate in 59.80 seconds (1/28) this morning at Santa Anita Park. Breezing on the inside of unraced stablemate Yellow Brick (scheduled to debut Dec. 26), the 2-year-old ridgling went strong for the first half-mile, but in the final furlong he did get pretty tired as you will see in the video. While he was second best to his mate in the end, Yellow Brick does hold a fitness edge on Pioneer Prince and was breezing 6 furlongs this morning.

Team Mandella feels our ridgling will need a few more works, which we expected following last week’s breeze, but he will be a likely candidate for a race in the second condition book at Santa Anita (mid-January). Trainer Richard Mandella will continue to put some endurance breezes under him over the next few weeks.