AURIETTE IS THE LIFE OF RETIREMENT PARTY.Byline: Kevin Modesti Daily News Staff Writer Gary Jones Gary Jones is the name of:
Two days before the trainer retires, the Irish filly and her jockey won the $310,900 Santa Barbara Handicap The Santa Barbara Handicap is a race for Thoroughbred horses run at Santa Anita Park each year. The race is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-quarter miles on the turf. The Grade IIT Santa Barbara offers a purse of $200,000. - going away. It was Jones' 575th winner at Santa Anita, third on the all-time list behind Charlie Whittingham and Bobby Frankel, and his 71st stakes victory, fifth in track history. Jones hopes for one more - Ski Dancer is a contender in Monday's San Simeon Handicap The San Simeon Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses. It is raced each year at Santa Anita Park. The race is open to four year olds and up willing to race six and a half furlongs on the downhill turf course. The race is a Grade III event with a purse of $100,000. - but knows this may have been his final winner's-circle appearance. ``I'm a little more relaxed now than I was the first time,'' he said, thinking back to his early successes after taking over from his father Farrell Jones in 1975. ``I'm really excited for my son (Marty Jones), that he gets to train a nice filly. She could be another Kostroma.'' Auriette, a 4-year-old daughter of Caerleon, won once in 1995, in the Honeymoon at Hollywood Park. She took a five-month break after bleeding at Keeneland and has won both starts since. Always close to the lead Saturday, she and Desormeaux took advantage of a slow pace and the favorites' trouble caused by faltering long shot Tabled With Saros to win the 1-1/4-mile turf race by 3-1/2 lengths and pay $8.60. Angel in My Heart ran second and Wandesta third for Frankel. ``Gary Jones is getting these horses ready for a farewell party, and, I'm telling you, I think he should retire once a week,'' Desormeaux said. Jones, 51, announced April 3 that he would retire at the end of the Santa Anita season. He cited his health - Jones had a mild heart attack in 1993 - and disenchantment dis·en·chant tr.v. dis·en·chant·ed, dis·en·chant·ing, dis·en·chants To free from illusion or false belief; undeceive. [Obsolete French desenchanter, from Old French, with the racing industry. Desormeaux swept Saturday's stakes, riding Siphon siphon (sī`fən, –fŏn), tube through which a liquid is lifted over an elevation by the pressure of the atmosphere and is then emptied at a lower level. ($5) to victory in the $70,850 Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. Motel Handicap. Today: Special Price, the only horse in the field of seven who has run the $400,000 San Juan Capistrano San Juan Capistrano (săn wän kăpĭsträ`nō), city (1990 pop. 26,183), Orange co., S Calif.; inc. 1961. San Juan Capistrano has some manufactures, including aircraft parts, medical apparatus, and boats, but the economy is Invitational's marathon distance, is a 3-1 third choice behind the 8-5 mare Windsharp and 2-1 Awad. Special Price lost a photo finish to Red Bishop in the 1-3/4-mile race last year. He'll be ridden today by the jockey who beat him - Gary Stevens. The 7-year-old French import's only U.S. victory came in the 1-3/8-mile Golden Gate Handicap. The human races: Alex Solis (two winners Saturday) closed within 72-71 of Corey Nakatani (one). Solis fell from College Town at the start of the Bates Motel but was reported unhurt. Richard Mandella won with Siphon, but Bill Spawr replied with Bahatur and reclaimed the training lead, 28 winners to 27. Spawr has entered six horses on the final two cards, Mandella two. McCarron's choice: If Chris McCarron is going to win his third Kentucky Derby on May 4, he will do it while riding Cavonnier. The Hall of Fame jockey announced he has chosen the Santa Anita Derby The Santa Anita Derby is an American Grade 1 thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run each April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California and carries a purse of $750,000. winner over Louis Quatorze, whose most recent finish was a distant second to Skip Away in the Blue Grass. ``I think he (Cavonnier) is a real contender for the Derby,'' McCarron said. McCarron won the Derby in 1987 with Alysheba and 1994 with Go for Gin Go for Gin (foaled 1991 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred racehorse most well known as the winner of the 1994 Kentucky Derby. He was sired by Cormorant out of the dam Never Knock. . Second again: It takes a good 3-year-old filly to beat Cara Rafaela - and she keeps finding one. The California hope in the Ashland Stakes at Keeneland led the five-horse field into the stretch before My Flag and Jerry Bailey blew past her and won easily at $3.80. Trainer D. Wayne Lukas Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935 in Antigo, Wisconsin) is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. said Cara Rafaela is 50-50 to run in the May 3 Kentucky Oaks, where she would face My Flag and Antespend, who beat her in the Las Virgenes and Santa Anita Oaks Santa Anita Oaks is an American Grade I Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid March at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. Open to three-year-old fillies willing to race 8.5 furlongs (1 1/16 miles) on the dirt, it currently offers a purse of $300,000. . Crossed signals: Six days before its season opens, Hollywood Park said it won't beam its races to Las Vegas casinos unless a negotiating impasse is broken. The casinos have been paying 3.5 percent of their handle on Santa Anita races to the track. Hollypark wants 4 percent. Tracks here keep half of their percentage, pay California license fees and breeders' awards, and put the rest into purses. Nevada bet $437,000 a day on Hollypark races last summer, 4.5 percent of the track's handle. The casinos could book bets without Hollypark's signal, but without showing the races on TV. |
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