BREEDERS' HOPEFULS HIT DEL MAR.Byline: Daily News For horses who spent their vacations dreaming about the Oct. 26 Breeders' Cup in Toronto, it's time to start getting ready. Some are scheduled to begin their comebacks on the first weekend of racing at Del Mar: Lit de Justice In France under the Ancien Régime, the lit de justice was a particular formal session of the Parlement of Paris, under the presidency of the king, for the compulsory registration of the royal edicts. , the gray sprinter whose come-from-behind, 6-1/2-length victory in the Pat O'Brien was one of last year's best-remembered performances here, and Abaginone, working on a three-race winning streak, make their first starts since April in Sunday's $200,000 Bing Crosby Breeders' Cup Handicap The Bing Crosby Breeders' Cup Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in late July at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. The Grade 1 race is open to horses three years of age up. . Lit de Justice, to be ridden by Corey Nakatani and carry 116 pounds, drew the outside post in a six-horse field going 6 furlongs. Abaginone, with Corey Black aboard for the first time, has 120 pounds and post 4. The field includes three horses who ran in last year's Bing Crosby - Gold Land (who won), G Malleah (third) and Concept Win (sixth). Larry the Legend, recovered from two knee-chip surgeries, runs for the first time since his April 8, 1995 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. victory in today's seventh race. His six opponents in the 6-1/2-furlong allowance race include Forest Gazelle gazelle, name for the many species of delicate, graceful antelopes of the genus Gazella, inhabiting arid, open country. Most gazelles are found only in Africa, but several species range over N Africa and SW Asia; the Persian, or goitered, gazelle ( , making his first start since winning a small stakes Dec. 24 at Hollywood Park, site of his 1:07 4/5 victory in the Los Angeles Handicap earlier last year. Kent Desormeaux will ride Larry the Legend and Eddie Delahoussaye has Forest Gazelle. Today's third race will mark the return of '95 Hollywood Derby winner River Flyer, who bled and failed to finish his latest start, on Nov. 5 at Santa Anita. The classified-allowance race, at 1 1/16 miles on turf, also drew '95 Hollywood Turf Handicap winner Earl of Barking and the trainer Richard Mandella's touted Argentine import Gentlemen. Today's stakes races may be overshadowed by the comebacks. The $150,000 San Diego Handicap The San Diego Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. The race is open to horses, age three and up, willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. The race carries a purse of 300,000. finds favored The Exeter Man returning to 1 1/16 miles, the distance of his minor stakes victory over Dramatic Gold and Nonproductiveasset at Hollywood Park. Delahoussaye rides. Nonproductiveasset was assigned a race-high 118 pounds, two more than The Exeter Man and Savinio. Earlier today, Gastronomical gas·tro·nom·ic also gas·tro·nom·i·cal adj. Of or relating to gastronomy. gas  tro·nom and Delahoussaye will have to contain the stretch charge of Bobby Frankel-trained French import True Flare and Nakatani to give young trainer Marty Jones his first Del Mar stakes victory in the $100,000 San Clemente Handicap The San Clemente Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. A Grade IIT event, the race is open to three-year-old fillies willing to race one mile on the turf.It offers a purse of $150,000. for 3-year-old fillies. |
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