CHALK UP ANOTHER FAIRPLEX WIN FOR STUTE.Byline: Kevin Modesti Daily News Staff Writer Mel Stute holds the Fairplex Park record for victories by a trainer. Although some doubt that's much of an honor, he desperately wants to keep the lead. Just like his 6-year-old horse Score Quick, who led the Ralph M. Hinds Pomona Invitational Handicap from start to finish Sunday under jockey Matt Garcia, fighting off Budroyale and Sovereign M.D. at the wire to make it back-to-back wins in the $100,000 main event of the Fairplex season. ``It means a lot to me,'' Stute, a native of nearby Covina, said of the victory, his 146th and 40th in a stakes at the L.A. County Fair. ``When you're raised somewhere, you kind of want to be the best. It's an ego thing. ``I sweat whenever (pursuers) Jerry Fanning or Ted West wins a race.'' Stute, 71, trained his first Pomona winner Sept. 24, 1949, in a race with a $2,000 purse. So what does he say to those who make fun of the little track? ``I tell 'em they're crazy,'' he said. ``It's the best place in the world to watch a race, because the horses are so close.'' Score Quick ($4.40) obviously likes it. He's the eighth repeat winner of the 1-1/8-mile Pomona Invitational, and has three wins, a second and a third in five Fairplex starts. Though Score Quick was listed as a gelding gelding castrated male horse. in the track program Sunday, he's all horse, and owner Bill Thomas For other people with similar names, see . William Marshall Thomas (born December 6 1941), commonly known as Bill Thomas, American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979–2007, representing the 22nd District of actually bred him to six mares last spring during his latest injury rehabilitation. Stute led the 1996 and '97 Fairplex meets, but not this one, which ended Sunday. There was a four-way tie for the training title among four men who had six winners: Paul Aguirre, Caesar Dominguez, Jeff Mullins Jeffrey Vincent Mullins (born March 18 1942) is a retired American basketball player and coach who is best known for his playing career with the Duke Blue Devils, the Golden State Warriors of the NBA, and later as and Sandy Shulman. The Oak Tree meet at Santa Anita Santa Anita may refer to:
He was introduced to the sport of thoroughbred racing by his older brother, jockey Gregg McCarron. , is one of 10 fillies and mares entered in the Autumn Days Handicap turf sprint. Also: Arch, ridden by Corey Nakatani ''' Corey S. Nakatani (born October 21, 1970 in Covina, California, United States) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. As of 2006, Nakatani has won more than 3000 races including the Kentucky Oaks twice, the Canadian International Stakes, the Dubai Golden , held off favored Classic Cat to win the $500,000 Super Derby The Super Derby is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in September at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, Louisiana. Inaugurated in 1980, the Super Derby is open to 3-year-olds and the distance is 1 1/8 miles on the dirt. at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, La. Arch denied Classic Cat a $1 million bonus for sweeping the Ohio Derby, the Remington Derby and the Super Derby. |
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