ALPRIDE GOES IN RAMONA.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services The $300,000 Ramona Handicap, the Del Mar Del Mar is the name of several places in the United States of America:
Instead, it will give one of last year's contenders a good chance to get back on the winning track. Alpride, 0 for 3 since winning the 1995 Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. at Hollywood Park Hollywood Park may be several places:
He was introduced to the sport of thoroughbred racing by his older brother, jockey Gregg McCarron. riding for trainer Ron McAnally Ronald L. McAnally (born July 11, 1932, in Covington, Kentucky) is an American Hall of Fame trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing. Called "one of the most honored and respected of North American trainers" by Thoroughbred Times Co. in the 1-1/8-mile race. Her opponents include Richard Mandella-trained Matiara, also in an 0-for-3 slump; Radu Cool, who upset Alpride in an allowance race last month; and Angel in My Heart, the Bobby Frankel trainee who has been first or second in five of six U.S. starts. But Alpride will not have to face her Sidney Craig stablemate Noun 1. stablemate - a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person stable companion Equus caballus, horse - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times Different, this year's Beverly Hills winner, or any of the other top turf fillies and mares who are skipping over the Ramona to run in the $500,000 Beverly D Handicap at Arlington International on Aug. 24. ``I've been reading about Mandella's filly, about how she's been training well,'' McAnally said. ``But I think our filly will run well.'' A victory in today's Grade I race would put Alpride's career earnings over $1 million. She has won 11 of 20 starts. McAnally is seeking his fourth Ramona, having won it with Luz del Sol in '69, Drama Critic in '78 and Auspiciante in '86. McCarron won the race aboard Flawlessly in '92, '93 and '94. Flawlessly won the Eclipse Award in '92 and '93, as did Ramona winners Brown Bess ('89) and Possibly Perfect ('95). Fastness vs. five: Fastness, the nation's top-ranked male turf specialist, drew the outside post in a six-horse field for Sunday's $300,000 Eddie Read Handicap The Eddie Read Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race for horses age three and up and is raced at a distance of one and one-eighth miles on the turf. The Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California hosts the $400,000, Grade I event, which is an important prep to the Breeders' at Del Mar. He'll carry 124 pounds - including Corey Nakatani - six pounds more than Gold and Steel and nine to 12 more than Earl of Barking, Wavy Run, Smooth Runner and Big Sky Jim. End of an era: The $1.2 million Hambletonian, the trotting classic that will be shown on Channel 2 at noon today, will undergo a major facelift before next year and will no longer be a test of standardbred Standardbred Breed of light horse developed in the U.S., primarily for harness racing. The foundation sire was an English Thoroughbred imported in 1788; his progeny were bred with other breeds, especially the Morgan, to produce speedy trotters and pacers. endurance. In 1997, the Hambletonian eliminations will be contested a week before the final and the heats will be seeded to balance the fields. The top 10 horses will then advance to the final, which also might be run on a different date. The Hambletonian Society on Friday gave officials at Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, N.J., the option of moving the race from the first Saturday in August to the second, so the event could coincide with the final day of its harness meet. The 12 3-year-olds entered this year will have to race in elimination heats today, with the final the same afternoon. ``Standardbreds were always known as such a durable breed in that they could race three or four heats and were so strong,'' said driver John Campbell. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: McANALLY |
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