HORSE RACING ROUNDUP: CONSOLIDATOR WINS SAN FELIPE.Byline: Kevin Modesti Staff Writer ARCADIA - The way it looked through D. Wayne Lukas' binoculars, the ``real'' Consolidator showed up at Santa Anita Santa Anita may refer to:
As a result, it's looking like a real Lukas kind of year on the Kentucky Derby Kentucky Derby One of the classic U.S. Thoroughbred horse races. It was established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs track in Louisville, Ky. With the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, it makes up U.S. racing's coveted Triple Crown. trail. Consolidator - fitter than he was when he finished last in his 3-year- old debut - responded to jockey Rafael Bejarano Rafael Bejarano (born June 23, 1982 in Arequipa, Peru) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He trained at the Peruvian national riding school before embarking on his professional career in 1999. and drew away from runner-up Giacomo, with fast-finishing Don't Get Mad and poor-starting Wilko next and favorite Roman Ruler the trailer among eight horses in the $250,000 San Felipe. ``I did a bad job getting him ready (for last month's San Vicente Stakes The San Vicente Stakes is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Santa Anita Park each year. The race is open to horses, age three, willing to race seven furlongs on the dirt and carries a purse of $150,000. The great racing filly, Busher, won this race against males in 1945. ),'' Lukas said. ``He was like a pampered pam·per tr.v. pam·pered, pam·per·ing, pam·pers 1. To treat with excessive indulgence: pampered their child. 2. kid. I corrected that this time.'' Drilled harder by his Hall of Fame trainer, Consolidator ($16.40) won by 6 1/2 lengths, topping the San Felipe record of six by (Variety Road, 1986), and covered the 1 1/16 miles in 1:40.11, taking advantage of a hard ``wet-fast'' track to smash the stakes record of 1:41 1/5 (Pole Position, 1979). Now Lukas has Consolidator and Going Wild - both owned by Bob and Beverly Lewis of Newport Beach - to contend for the May 7 Kentucky Derby. Lukas has won the Kentucky Derby four times, tied with Dick Thompson for second behind Ben Jones' six. The Lewises have won it twice. Lukas thinks he holds his strongest hand since 1999, when he won the Derby with the Lewises' Charismatic and took third with Overbrook Farm's Cat Thief. It's a return to form for the barn that failed to get a horse to the Derby in 2004. ``We've got a lot of options now,'' Lukas said Saturday. It sounded unlikely that Lukas will run either Going Wild or Consolidator in the April 9 Santa Anita Derby The Santa Anita Derby is an American Grade 1 thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run each April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California and carries a purse of $750,000. , the western prep for the Kentucky Derby. Going Wild, winner of the Sham Stakes and second to since-injured Declan's Moon in the Santa Catalina, has been pointed to the April 9 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct. Consolidator, winner of the Breeders' Futurity in October at Keeneland, may go to the April 16 Blue Grass at the same Lexington, Ky., track. Lukas wants the extra week the Blue Grass would permit to prepare Consolidator, a son of Storm Cat bought as a yearling yearling an animal in its second year of age, e.g. yearling cattle, yearling filly, yearling colt. yearling disease rinderpest in wildebeeste in the Serengheti. for $1.25 million. Possibilities for the Santa Anita Derby include Sweet Catomine, Scipion, Giacomo, Don't Get Mad and Wilko. --Greater Good ($11.20) and jockey John McKee wore down Rockport Harbor to win the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas. Favored Afleet Alex quickly faded to last. --Survivalist ($8.90) and Richard Migliore won the Gotham at Aqueduct for trainer Shug McGaughey. --Sun King ($2.10) and Edgar Prado won as easily as expected for trainer Nick Zito in the Tampa Bay Derby The Tampa Bay Derby is a race for Thoroughbred race horses held in March at Tampa Bay Downs. A Grade III event, the race is open to three-year-olds willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles (8.5 furlongs) on the dirt. . Consolidator had dropped in the rankings after his fourth in the Feb. 13 San Vicente. Lukas said the colt was under-trained. Kevin Modesti, (818) 713-3616 heymodesti(at)aol.com |
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