ANTESPEND SHOWS HER STUFF.Byline: Kevin Modesti Daily News Staff Writer Injuries to Eclipse Award winner Golden Attraction and speedy Advancing Star have left their division wide open for any 3-year-old fillies who emerge at Santa Anita Santa Anita may refer to:
One may have emerged. Antespend, seemingly beaten on the turn in her first main-track race Wednesday, took the lead when Dancing Prism's stride shortened, and went on to a three-length victory in the $104,950 Santa Ysabel Stakes The Santa Ysabel Stakes is a race for Thoroughbred race horses run each year at Santa Anita Park. It is open to fillies, three years old, willing to race one and one-sixteenths of a mile on the dirt. The race is a Grade III event with a purse of $100,000. . Ridden by Chris Antley, she ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.87, and paid $4.60. Rumpipumpy nosed Gastronomical gas·tro·nom·ic also gas·tro·nom·i·cal adj. Of or relating to gastronomy. gas  tro·nom out of third.
It was Antespend's fifth win in six starts and sent her earnings past $250,000 for owner Jack Kent Cooke Jack Kent Cooke (25 October, 1912 – 6 April, 1997) was a Canadian-American entrepreneur who became one of the most widely-known executives in North American professional sports. , whose Elmendorf Farm bred the daughter of Spend a Buck Spend A Buck (born 1982 in western Kentucky, died November 24, 2002 in Brazil) was an American thoroughbred race horse. Spend A Buck was sired by Buckaroo [1] out of the dam Belle de Jour. and Auspiciante. Cooke also owns the Daily News. "Her mother could run on anything," said Ron McAnally, who trained Auspiciante for Cooke and trains Antespend. But, he said, "we almost have to run her on dirt at least once more," because Santa Anita has no turf stakes program for 3-year-old fillies. Antespend's biggest win before this came in the mile-on-turf Miesque at Hollywood Park. She began her career in Kentucky. |
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