GOLD CUP: EDDIE D.'S TOUGH RIDE.Byline: Kevin Modesti Staff Writer INGLEWOOD - Eddie Delahoussaye's legendary calm is being seriously tested these days. This afternoon's $1 million Hollywood Gold Cup The Hollywood Gold Cup is a Grade I stakes race for thoroughbred horses inaugurated in 1938 at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. It was run as a handicap race until 1997 when it was switched to weight-for-age conditions. , in which Delahoussaye will ride Out of Mind, is the easy part for the Hall of Fame jockey. Monday morning, he'll watch his wife Juanita go into the hospital for surgery to repair an aneurysm aneurysm (ăn`y  rĭzəm), localized dilatation of a blood vessel, particularly an artery, or the heart. near her brain. It is one of
two aneurysms discovered in May after Juanita began suffering from
severe headaches.
It's no sure thing that Juanita will survive the three- to five-hour operation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a world-renowned hospital located in Los Angeles, California. History Cedars-Sinai is the result of a merger in 1961 between two major Los Angeles hospitals, Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables, with Steve Broidy as in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Yet Delahoussaye, 48, did not appear distracted Saturday as he delivered a typically cool-headed ride to win the $78,775 Royal Heroine Stakes aboard favored Tranquility Lake. ``When I come out here, I focus on my job,'' Delahoussaye said as he changed silks for the next race. ``You still worry, but we have a good doctor, he's done a lot of these surgeries. And like he said, she's got a good chance because we caught it early. ``She's feeling good. It's just that every day, there's one or two bad headaches.'' The Delahoussayes, who live in Arcadia, have been married since 1971, when Louisiana-born Eddie was riding in the South and Midwest. They have a daughter, Mandy, 24, and a son, Loren, 21. Mandy's developmental disability developmental disability n. A cognitive, emotional, or physical impairment, especially one related to abnormal sensory or motor development, that appears in infancy or childhood and involves a failure or delay in progressing through the normal has forced Delahoussaye, elected to the Hall of Fame in 1993, to keep his accomplishments in perspective. In a 32-year career, he has won more than 6,000 races, including Kentucky Derbies in 1982 (Gato del Sol Gato Del Sol (February 23 1979 – August 7, 2007) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was foaled at Stone Farm in Paris, Kentucky, the son of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Cougar II, and out of the mare Peacefully whose grandsire was Bold Ruler, another Hall of ) and 1983 (Sunny's Halo Sunny's Halo (February 11, 1980 - June 3, 2003) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who became only the second Canadian-bred to win the Kentucky Derby and who as of 2006 is the all-time leading sire by progeny earnings in the state of Texas. ), making him one of only four riders to win consecutive Derbies. Delahoussaye has led the jockey standings at Hollywood Park, Santa Anita, Del Mar, Keeneland, Fair Grounds, Arlington Park and Churchill Downs. Another victory in the Hollywood Gold Cup would be his fourth. Delahoussaye won the race aboard Go West Young Man in 1980, Island Whirl in 1983 and Desert Wine in 1984. |
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