CUP FIELD LEFT IN DAZE.Byline: Kevin Modesti Daily News Staff Writer Usually the California Cup is a poor man's Poor man's is a common slang term used to compare one thing with another. It is not necessarily a derogatory term. It is usually used in a sentence as "X is a poor man's Y", with "X" being the person or thing one is referring to, and "Y" being the superior but similar person or Breeders' Cup The Breeders' Cup World Championships is an annual series of Grade I thoroughbred horse races operated by Breeders' Cup Limited, a company formed in 1982 by a consortium of North American racing organizations, led by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. . This year's edition was a poor man's California Cup. There were no Best Pals, Flying Continentals or Megan's Intercos in the featured Cal Cup Classic, and that allowed the former $40,000 claiming horse Awesome Daze to make off with the $150,000 winner's purse and give jockey Gary Stevens
So modest was the 5-year-old gelding's resume that trainer Darrell Vienna and owner David Milch David S. Milch (March 23, 1945, Buffalo, New York) is an American television writer and producer. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Yale and won the Tinker Prize in English. He earned an MFA from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. originally planned to enter him in the cheap starter handicap that opened the program of races for California-bred horses. ``It's really a comment on the quality of the (Classic) field,'' said Vienna, who also saddled Cal Cup Starter Sprint winner Native Russian ($8). ``Not to take anything away from this horse, but he's a $50-60,000 horse, and on his day he runs hard, which is how this happens. ``There's just nothing around (in terms of first-class Cal-breds). That's probably true of racing in general.'' Awesome Daze ($13), claimed for Milch milch giving milk or kept for milking. for $50,000 at Hollywood Park Hollywood Park may be several places:
Saturday, he trailed the field on the backstretch back·stretch n. The part of an oval racecourse farthest from the spectators and opposite the homestretch. and rallied wide to beat To Be Khaled and Kent Desormeaux Kent J. Desormeaux (born February 27, 1970, in Maurice, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana) is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who holds the U.S. record for most races won in a single year. by two lengths in 1:49.68, the slowest of eight runnings of the 1-1/8-mile Classic. ``The time wasn't that great,'' Stevens said after the $250,000 race, ``but it's nice to see these Cal-breds get their chance to shine.'' The shiniest of all Saturday was Career Collection ($3.60), the General Meeting filly who won the Cal Cup Juvenile Fillies by nine lengths with 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 riding. She might have persuaded owners John and Betty Mabee to try the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies The Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies is a 1 1/16-mile thoroughbred horse race on dirt (although the distance has varied, depending on the configuration of the host track) for two-year-old fillies run annually since 1984 at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part at Hollywood Park on Nov. 8. ``It would have been better if this race had been a week ago,'' said John Mabee, whose Golden Eagle Farm has owned a record six Cal Cup winners. ``But she didn't have to run too hard.'' There were other notable performances. Stevens' three wins, which included Ready Eddie ($4.60) in the 1-1/2-mile Starter Handicap, made him the leading rider in Cal Cup history with 11. Former leader Alex Solis picked up his 10th Cal Cup winner when Gastown ($5.20) rallied wide on the turf course to win the Mile. That race gave Megan's Interco a chance to become the Cal Cup's first four-time winner, but the 8-year-old never got closer than sixth. ``Corey (Nakatani) said he was never really comfortable,'' trainer Jenine Sahadi said. ``He said the turf course was very firm.'' Sahadi had worried that because the protective bar shoes on the horse's tender hind feet had to be ground nearly flat to meet Santa Anita turf-course rules, Megan's Interco might lose traction. The other popular old-timer in the Cal Cup, Letthebighossroll, fared better, running second to Red ($22.60) and Nakatani in the Sprint and going over $1 million in career earnings. ``What a great way that would have been (for the 9-year-old) to go out, to win that race,'' said trainer Bob Baffert, who may retire the Big Hoss. Baffert did take over the Cal Cup training record from David Hofmans with his sixth and seventh winners, Ex Marks the Cop ($5) in the Juvenile and Fun in Excess ($31.20) in the Matron, each with David Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the riding. Baffert has 17 winners at the Oak Tree meet. Fun in Excess wasn't the day's longest price. Seattle Carla ($50.40) won the Distaff to give jockey Julio Garcia his first Cal Cup prize. Notes: Attendance in Arcadia, 28,490, was the lowest in Cal Cup history. . . . Average attendance for the Oak Tree meet's first 20 days, about 12,500, is up 2.4 percent from 1996. . . . Cal Cup Classic favorite End Run was pulled up early in the race and was reported to have a left-foreleg injury. . . . Chris Antley missed his one scheduled mount Saturday and one of the Santa Anita stewards said they hadn't heard an excuse. . . . Eddie Delahoussaye was off because of the flu. . . . Bob Baffert trains another contender, Troysend, for the Morvich Handicap today. . . . Pick-six carryover: $152,572. |
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