DEL MAR: GOLDEN APPLES RETURNS IN MABEE.

Byline: Kevin Modesti Staff Writer

DEL MAR Del Mar is the name of several places in the United States of America:

Del Mar, California
Del Mar, Texas
Del Mar High School, located in San Jose, California
Del Mar Racetrack, located in Del Mar, California

- Golden Apples, the nation's champion female turf-course specialist in 2002, faces a hard comeback race today in the $400,000 John C. Mabee Handicap The John C. Mabee Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race contested each summer at the Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. The race, known as the Ramona Handicap through 2001, is an important prep race for the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf. , the highlight of a Del Mar program that includes appearances by Kona Gold Kona Gold is a champion thoroughbred racehorse. Best known for his victory in the 2000 Breeders' Cup Sprint and subsequent Eclipse Award as Champion Sprinter, Kona Gold raced until he was 9 years old.

Currently, Kona Gold is a stable pony for former trainer Bruce Headley. and Sarava.

Out since ankle surgery in December, Golden Apples will be ridden for the first time by Gary Stevens

For other people named Gary Stevens, see Gary Stevens (disambiguation).

Michael Gary Stevens (born in Barrow-in-Furness, England, 27 March 1963) is a retired English footballer who shot to fame in the great Everton side of the 1980s. and carry 122 pounds. It could be quite a week for Stevens, who is getting good reviews for his acting debut as jockey George Woolf George Monroe Woolf (May 10, 1910 – January 4, 1946) was a Canadian-born thoroughbred race horse jockey and the namesake of the annual jockey's award given by the United States Jockeys' Guild. in ``Seabiscuit.''

Pat Valenzuela has jumped to Tates Creek, the Bobby Frankel-trained mare who is assigned a race-high 123 pounds as she seeks her fifth consecutive victory.

Dublino, Megahertz One million cycles per second. See MHz.

MegaHertz - (MHz) Millions of cycles per second. The unit of frequency used to measure the clock rate of modern digital logic, including microprocessors. , Voz de Colegiala and Magic Mission complete the field of six for the 1 1/8-mile turf race called the Ramona Handicap before it was renamed in honor of Mabee, the late Del Mar chairman and California champion horse owner.

Tates Creek is No. 2, behind England-based Russian Rhythm, and Dublino is tied for No. 5 in the official ranking of contenders for the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Santa Anita on Oct. 25. Golden Apples is out of the top 10 pending her 2003 debut.

``She's happy, she's very sound, she's fresh,'' trainer Ben Cecil said of Golden Apples. ``I think she'll run very well.''

Kona Gold, the 2000 national sprint champion, tries to get back on form at age 9 in the $200,000 Bing Crosby Handicap. Sarava, sidelined by injuries and a switch to trainer Bob Baffert since his 2002 Belmont Stakes win, runs in an allowance-level race.

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Date:	Jul 26, 2003
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