Hall of Fame trainer Ron McAnally returned to his stable office Wednesday morning, three days after taking a tumble that required an overnight hospital stay. McAnally was in attendance at a party at the Solana Beach home of Pamplemousse Grill owner Jeffrey Strauss after the races Sunday night when a knee, surgically repaired a few years ago, gave out on him.
“I turned the wrong way on it, went down and hit my head on the concrete,” McAnally, 85, said. “When I was laying there on the ground, they asked me how I felt and I said, 'About like Bob Baffert felt when (Arrogate) ran the other day. Even Baffert got a laugh out of that.”
McAnally was taken away on a stretcher and spent about a day and a half in a hospital undergoing tests and observations. Results were negative, clearing McAnally to return to the track where he's been a regular since 1948. McAnally ranked third on Del Mar's all-time trainer wins list to start the season, with his 444 wins behind only Mike Mitchell (476) and Baffert (466) and number two on the stakes-winning trainer roll with 77 to Baffert's 121.
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