City of Light breaks through in Grade 1 Malibu

The day after winning a big stakes race in 2005, Greg’s Gold turned up in his barn with a bowed tendon — the kind of injury that depresses owners and puts expensive thoroughbreds out to pasture forever. Not this time. Using stem cells harvested from his own fat to repair his right front tendon, Greg’s Gold returned to racing at the highest level.

Breakdowns — at least two of them fatal — marred a record slate of stakes races Saturday at Keeneland in which four horses earned automatic spots in the Breeders’ Cup. Teuflesberg, the 17th-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, pulled up short in the Grade 3 Phoenix Handicap with fractures to both front legs.

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