White Abarrio (Race Day), listed as the even-money favorite in Saturday's GIII Mr. Prospector Stakes at Gulfstream, will be scratched, reports co-owner Mark Cornett.Cornett said that the ownership team and trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. have decided instead to train the veteran up to the Jan. 24 GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational. White Abarrio was an easy winner of the 2024 Pegasus.“We don't want to run in the Mr. Prospector anymore because we have come up with a plan for him,” Cornett said. “The main goal has been the Pegasus. Depending on how he runs there, we will point him to a 7-year-old campaign and the (March 28 G1) Dubai World Cup. That will be the next goal after the Pegasus.“The goal wasn't necessarily about winning the Mr. Prospector. It was about setting him up for the Pegasus. But after further discussion we're just going to train him up to the Pegasus. We threw him into this race pretty much because they entered seven days out here. We wanted to take a look and see if we wanted to run him in the race like we did last year.“Since we're going to keep him in training for a 7-year-old campaign, we'll go right into the Pegasus with him, so he'll be nice and fresh for the rest of his campaign. This race wasn't going to do anything for us. Saffie and I went over things pretty extensively about any concerns we might have about his fitness level since he'll be off a long time between races. This horse seems to relish the time off in between races, so that's not even a concern.”This will make two straight races in which White Abarrio has been withdrawn. He was on the track and headed to the gate for the Nov. 1 GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile when a veterinarian deemed that there was something wrong and had him scratched. The owners have said all along that White Abarrio was not having any problems at all that day.“There's no problem now and there wasn't any problem that day,” Cornett said. “We had to breeze him five-eighths. That was one of the requirements the CHRB had after they put him on the vet's list. We breezed him five-eighths basically as quickly as we could. That got him off the vet's list right away. He has never showed us any signs of any problem. We're still very flustered by what happened.”The post White Abarrio To Be Scratched From Mr. Prospector appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.