HORSE RACING NOTEBOOK: TRAINER CERIN LOOKS AHEAD HE PUTS DISQUALIFICATION IN PAST.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Trainer Vladimir Cerin, whose 58-1 long shot Designed for Luck was 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 first to fifth for interference near the finish of the $500,000 Hollywood Derby The Hollywood Derby is an American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses on the turf run each year in December at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. last weekend at Hollywood park Hollywood Park may be several places:
``The Derby is ancient history,'' Cerin said Wednesday. ``Look forward. Don't look back.'' Cerin had been considerably less philosophical in the minutes after Designed for Luck and jockey Laffit Pincay were disqualified, making winners of Brahms and rider Pat Day. Cerin called the stewards ``morons'' in a brief phone conversation following the ruling. Casey Griffin won the Pomona Invitational Handicap at Fairplex Park on Oct. 1 and finished second to Saint Wynn in the Skywalker Handicap at Santa Anita Santa Anita may refer to:
A field of seven to nine is probable for the 1 1/8-mile Native Diver. Listed as probable starters are California Cup Classic The California Cup Classic is an American thoroughbred horse race run annually at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California during its Oak Tree Racing Association meet in the fall of the year. winner Sky Jack, with Pincay, assigned 118 pounds; Casey Griffin, Eddie Delahoussaye Edward J. Delahoussaye (born September 21 1951) was an American thoroughbred jockey from New Iberia, Louisiana. He began his career in 1968 and in ten short years became the top American jockey with 384 wins. , 117; 1999 Native Diver runner-up Moore's Flat, Victor Espinoza, 116; Saint Wynn, Gary Stevens, 116; Lethal Instrument, Corey Nakatani, 114; Literal Prowler, Chris McCarron, 114; Estio, Alex Solis, 113, and Grey Memo, Matt Garcia, 113. The Native Diver, named for the three-time winner of the 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. (1965-66-67), is the Hollywood Park fall meet's major main-track race for 3-year-olds and up. It is rated only Grade III, but the names of some of its champions in the past dozen years suggest it's bigger than that: Ruhlmann, Twilight Agenda, Sir Beaufort, Slew of Damascus, Best Pal, Alphabet Soup, Gentlemen, Puerto Madero and General Challenge all were Native Diver winners. --Also this weekend: The $400,000 Hollywood Turf Cup on Saturday is expected to draw Lazy Lode, winner of the 1 1/2-mile race in 1998 and 1999, and seven or eight other horses. The lineup: Res Judicata res judicata (rēz j 'dĭkā`tə): see jeopardy. , Solis; Binn Tin Tin, Nakatani; Lazy Lode, Brice Blanc; Perssonet, Delahoussaye; Bienamado, McCarron; Lord Flasheart, Espinoza; Single Empire, Pincay; Vergennes, Garrett Gomez; Northern Quest, Stevens. Older horses carry 126 pounds, 3-year-olds 122. --Great sire dies: Halo, who sired Kentucky Derby winners Sunny's Halo and Sunday Silence, died this week at 31. Halo died Tuesday in his paddock at Arthur Hancock's Stone Farm in Paris, Ky., apparently of a heart attack. ``He had a great life and a wonderful career,'' Hancock said. ``His sons are carrying on, and he didn't suffer at all.'' Halo, a son of Hail to Reason Hail To Reason (1958 - February 24, 1976) was an American thoroughbred racehorse and an influential sire. He was bred in Kentucky by the Bieber-Jacobs Stable, a partnership of prominent horsemen, Isadore Bieber and Hirsch Jacobs. , was a Grade I stakes winner but became better known as a sire of racehorses, sires and broodmares. He twice was North America's leading sire - in 1993 with Sunny's Halo and in 1989 with Sunday Silence. He also sired Kentucky Oaks winner Goodbye Halo. Among his other top offspring were champions Devil's Bag and Glorious Song, who are full siblings, as well as Derby runner-up Saint Ballado, Southern Halo, Lively One and Jolie's Halo. OUT OF THE GATE HOLLYWOOD PARK LEADERS (Through Wednesday) Jockeys Wins Corey Nakatani 19 Victor Espinoza 13 Laffit Pincay 11 Alex Solis 11 Trainers Wins Bobby Frankel 9 Mike Mitchell 6 Vladimir Cerin 5 Doug O'Neill 5 PINCAY WATCH Laffit Pincay received a five-day suspension for allowing Designed for Luck to drift out in the Hollywood Derby, causing interference and leading to his disqualification. The suspension would begin Wednesday and run through Dec. 10, which happens to be the anniversary of Pincay's record-breaking 8,834th career winner. His current total is 9,023. ON THE STAKES SCHEDULE Hollywood Park Saturday --$400,000 Hollywood Turf Cup, 3-year-olds and up, 1 1/2 miles on turf; and $70,000 Corona Handicap, fillies and mares 3 and up, 6 furlongs. --$100,000 Native Diver Handicap, 3-year-olds and up, 1 1/8 miles. A WEEK AT THE RACES At The Races is a British television channel, originally co-founded with Channel 4, but now owned by a partnership between British Sky Broadcasting, Arena Leisure PLC and 28 (out of the 59) UK racecourses. Television producer and racehorse racehorse refers usually to thoroughbred but may also include standardbred, trotter. owner Alan W. Landsburg has been appointed to the California Horse Racing Board by Gov. Gray Davis. Landsburg, 67, is a director and founding member of Thoroughbred Owners of California. Two vacancies remain on the seven-seat CHRB CHRB California Horse Racing Board CHRB Community Housing Resource Board (Montana) CHRB Commonwealth Health Research Board . . . . Bobby Frankel and 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 weren't close in their bids for major wins on both sides of the international dateline Sunday. Timboroa finished 11th behind local winner T.M. Opera in the $4.3 million Japan Cup. And - after the two men made a long flight home - Frankel-trained Happyanunoit was third in the Matriarch, and a Frankel trio and Flores-guided New Advantage were off the board in the Hollywood Derby. . . . Frankel's busy weekend netted onevictory, by Fantastic Filly in the Miesque Stakes at Hollywood Park, and boosted his barn's 2000 earnings over $9.8 million, still third nationally behind Bob Baffert ($11.2 million) according to Daily Racing Form The Daily Racing Form, LLC (DRF) is a broadsheet newspaper founded in 1894 in Chicago, Illinois by Frank Brunell. The paper publishes the past performances of race horses as a statistical service for bettors on horse racing in the United States. figures. . . . Kent Desormeaux will miss the weekend at Hollywood Park for an international jockey competition in Osaka, Japan. . . . More Than Ready, who won his first five races as a 2-year-old but never fulfilled his promise, has been retired to stud at the Vinery, in Lexington, Ky. More Than Ready retires at age 3 with earnings of $1 million and seven wins in 17 starts. - Kevin Modesti CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: no caption (Laffit Pincay) Box: OUT OF THE GATE (see text) |
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