DESORMEAUX AND DRYSDALE DELIVER AGAIN.Byline: Kevin Modesti Daily News Staff Writer The first stakes race of Hollywood Park's autumn season ended with 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. and Neil Drysdale in the winner's circle win·ner's circle n. pl. winners' circles An enclosed area at a racetrack where the winning horse and jockey are brought for awards and publicity. Noun 1. and boos drifting up to the stewards' booth. In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , some things didn't change when thoroughbred racing moved across town on Wednesday. With Drysdale training and Desormeaux riding, English-bred Bodyguard avoided a collision in midstretch and won by 1-3/4 lengths over Moonlight Meeting in the $44,100 Itsallgreektome Stakes for 3-year-olds on the rain-dampened turf. It was the two men's 19th stakes victory together this year, including 18 in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , the most on the circuit. ``Every time I go out there (on a Drysdale horse), I feel like I can't get beat,'' said Desormeaux, whose wins with the trainer include Fiji's in the Yellow Ribbon Stakes The Yellow Ribbon Stakes is a Grade I race for thoroughbred fillies and mares aged three-years-old and upwards. It is raced during the Oak Tree Racing Association meeting at Santa Anita Park in late September / early October. at Santa Anita Santa Anita may refer to:
Bodyguard had to scoot scoot v. scoot·ed, scoot·ing, scoots v.intr. To go suddenly and speedily; hurry. v.tr. Upper Southern U.S. outside to avoid a midstretch tangle that resulted in Success and Glory and jockey Chris McCarron being disqualified dis·qual·i·fy tr.v. dis·qual·i·fied, dis·qual·i·fy·ing, dis·qual·i·fies 1. a. To render unqualified or unfit. b. To declare unqualified or ineligible. 2. from fourth to sixth for causing favored Silic and Gary Stevens to brake. Many in the crowd of 6,775 booed, thinking Bay Street Blues and Laffit Pincay should have been DQ'd. But the stewards ruled Bay Street Blues, who finished third, turned into Silic's path only after Success and Glory bumped his hind end. ``I hope that's the hardest call we have all meet,'' senior steward Tom Ward said. The day's other stakes, the $72,350 Steinlen Handicap on turf, was won by favored Brave Act, also an English-bred, with Chris McCarron riding for trainer Ron McAnally. Drysdale's Prize Giving, with Alex Solis, finished second, and Drysdale's Tamhid, with Desormeaux, ran fourth. McAnally, McCarron and jockey Corey Black each won twice on the first of 31 days of racing at Hollywood. Main-track races were dominated by front-runners. The day's longest-priced winner, Bit O'Dixton ($34.20), slipped through to the lead on the rail on the turn, and the other upsetter, Rebound Boy ($22.80), led from gate to wire. The attendance was down more than 2,200 from last fall's opener. But all of the opening-week numbers figure to look bad in comparison to 1997, when fans were excited about Hollywood Park hosting the Breeders' Cup. In a backward step, Hollywood Park canceled plans to guarantee a seven-figure pick-six pool on Nov. 29, the day of the Matriarch Stakes and the Hollywood Derby. The track introduced such guarantees with success at its summer meet. But the gimmick drew disappointing wagering in two tries at Oak Tree and Hollywood Park saw that as a sign it was being overused. ``We hope other tracks will follow our lead to ensure the guaranteed pick-six remains a special event,'' Hollywood Park chairman R.D. Hubbard said. |
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