FASTNESS FASTEST IN FEATURE : TRAINER SAHADI ORDERS THEN GETS COURSE-RECORD TIE.Byline: Kevin Modesti Daily News Staff Writer It's not enough anymore for Fastness to win races. It's expected. He is, after all, the best turf horse in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . So now the 6-year-old gray is winning them according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. order. His trainer, Jenine Sahadi, called the tune for Sunday's $700,000 Shoemaker 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. Mile shortly after the entries were announced at a Wednesday luncheon at Hollywood Park Hollywood Park may be several places:
Sahadi noted that she trained last year's course-record-setting winner, Megan's Interco, and said, ``I hope he (Fastness) wins the race - but doesn't break the record.'' Emcee Kurt Hoover replied: ``Would it be all right if he tied the track record?'' ``That would be all right,'' Sahadi said. He had to charge through the last quarter-mile in a mind-blowing :22 1/5 to do it, but Fastness won the Shoemaker - and, yes, he equaled Megan's Interco's record for Hollywood Park turf miles since the course was reconfigured in 1984. A win custom-made for his trainer. When the final quarter began, Fastness and jockey 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 were last in a seven-horse field that seemed to have let front-running Romarin and Chris McCarron Christopher John "Chris" McCarron (b. March 27 1955, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame retired jockey. He was introduced to the sport of thoroughbred racing by his older brother, jockey Gregg McCarron. steal the race. Romarin was ahead by 3-1/2 in midstretch. ``At the quarter-pole, he threw me in the backseat, he cut so hard,'' McCarron said of Romarin. ``I thought, `Oh, man, you're going to have to sprout wings to catch me.' ``I think I saw Pegasus go by at the 16th pole.'' Fastness, wide on the turn, flew by and won going away by 1-1/2. Romarin held on for second by a length over Richard Mandella Richard Mandella (born November 5, 1950 in Beaumont, California) is a Thoroughbred horse trainer and a member of the Racing Hall of Fame. Mandella's father, a blacksmith, introduced him to horses at an early age and while still in high school he began breaking and training stablemate Noun 1. stablemate - a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person stable companion Equus caballus, horse - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times Atticus. Tychonic, Debutant De`bu`tant´ n. 1. A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public. Trick and long shots Unusual Heat and Joker completed the order. Fastness' victory was the fifth in his past seven races, a 12-month stretch that includes his second-place finish to Ridgewood Pearl in the Breeders' Cup Mile, and his season-debut win in last month's Inglewood Handicap. Owned by C.N. and Carol Ray of Stateline, Nev., the Irish-bred son of Rousillon is now a millionaire, as well as a holder of two Hollywood Park records. He set the course record for 1-1/8 miles, 1:44 3/5, in the Nov. 25 Citation Handicap. Sunday's victory in a $700,000 race made the Shoemaker the richest thoroughbred event won by a woman trainer. (Quarterhorse trainer Connie Hall won the $1.8 million All American Futurity The All American Futurity is a a race for two-year-old Quarter horse racehorses run at Ruidoso Downs Race Track in Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico. It started in 1959, with a purse of $129,686.85. with A Classic Dash in 1993.) ``Jenine's done a super job with (Fastness),'' Mandella said. ``Man, woman, it doesn't matter. She's obviously got a lot of talent.'' Sahadi said the Aug. 4 Eddie Read Handicap The Eddie Read Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race for horses age three and up and is raced at a distance of one and one-eighth miles on the turf. The Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California hosts the $400,000, Grade I event, which is an important prep to the Breeders' at Del Mar would be next on Fastness' schedule. Fastness paid $2.80 and was expected to be the first of two sure things for Nakatani. But in the $106,100 Princess Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, Nakatani and Kentucky Oaks winner Pike Place Dancer never got closer than third as McCarron and Ron McAnally-trained Listening won by three lengths and paid $9.20. Nakatani blamed himself for letting Pike Place Dancer drop too far off a slow pace. ``I rode bad,'' he said. ``It was as simple as that.'' Notes: Corey Black, who rode Megan's Interco in the 1995 Shoemaker Mile, didn't have a mount in this year's race. So he went north to win the $200,000 Golden Gate Handicap aboard Time Star for trainer Neil Drysdale. Bobby Frankel-trained Sand Reef and Bon Point ran 2-3. It was closing day at Golden Gate. The fairs take over until Bay Meadows opens Aug. 30. . . . Laffit Pincay went all the way to Pennsylvania to finish last aboard Rejoyced in the Penn National Distaff. Brushing Gloom and Juan Umana won. . . . Twice the Vice and Jewel Princess are expected to carry a race-high 120 pounds in next Sunday's Milady. . . . Eddie Delahoussaye rode three winners. . . . Jockeys Across America Day VIII, a fund-raiser for injured and disabled riders, will be held July 6. The Don MacBeth Memorial Jockey Fund's leaders, Judy and Chris McCarron and act or Tim Conway, ask fans to take part in the annual charity event by mailing $2 - or more - to the MacBeth Fund at 505 South Beverly Drive, Suite 1019, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90212. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: SAHADI |
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