HORSE RACING ROUNDUP: KRONE CAPS SWEET YEAR THREE VICTORIES IN SIX RACES FINISHES WINNING WEEKEND.Byline: Kevin Modesti Staff Writer INGLEWOOD - With a clever victory aboard Sweet Return in the 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. at Hollywood Park Hollywood Park may be several places:
A year ago, soon after she ended a 3 1/2-year retirement, Krone attracted only one mount for Hollywood Park's six-race Turf Festival, a 59-1 long shot who finished dead last. But this time, Krone rode in all six races and won three, the second triple by a jockey in the 13-year history of the event. She won the Citation Handicap The Citation Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses usually set at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the turf for horses three-years-old and up. The race is held annually at Hollywood Park Racetrack, but was not run in 2005 because of a hiatus on grass racing at with Redattore and the Generous Stakes with Castledale on Saturday, before adding the front-running victory on 17-1 Sweet Return. She also collected purse money in the Miesque Stakes when Ticker Tape Ticker Tape A computerized device that relays financial information to investors around the world, including the stock symbol, the latest price, and volume on securities as they are traded. finished second and the Hollywood Turf Express when Needwood Blade ran fourth Friday, and the Matriarch when Acago was fifth Sunday. ``It's an amazing weekend,'' Krone said in the jockeys room as she autographed her bobble-head likenesses, more than 11,000 of which were handed out to paying customers. Many fans, perhaps drawn to the track by the Krone promotion, chanted ``Julie!'' as she rode Sweet Return back to 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. after the $600,000 Hollywood Derby. Krone essentially stole the race when the 12 other jockeys in the 1 1/4-mile grass race let Sweet Return lead through incredibly slow quarter-mile splits of 25.35, 51.04 and 1:17.49 seconds. Sweet Return held on to win by a half-length over Fairly Ransom, victim of the far-outside post, while favored Kicken Kris came in third. The winner and runner-up are both trained by Ron McAnally Ronald L. McAnally (born July 11, 1932, in Covington, Kentucky) is an American Hall of Fame trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing. Called "one of the most honored and respected of North American trainers" by Thoroughbred Times Co. . ``There's been a lot of sentimental value sentimental value Noun the value of an article to a particular person because of the emotions it arouses in winning races for Ron and for Richard (Mandella, trainer of Redattore),'' Krone said. ``They've both been very instrumental in my career.'' Sunday's co-featured $500,000 Matriarch was won by 4-1 Heat Haze and jockey John Velazquez in a three-way photo finish with Musical Chimes and Dedication. Heat Haze put herself in the hunt for the nation's female turf championship and allowed trainer Bobby Frankel to extend his single-season stakes record with his 25th victory of 2003. The upsets made it a tough pick-six on a day Hollywood Park guaranteed a $1 million pool. Four perfect tickets paid $157,499 apiece. Krone, 40, said she was too ``in the moment'' to attach any significance to her dominance of the Turf Festival, the grass-race grouping that highlights Hollywood Park's autumn season. But it appears to complete a year of memorable displays at 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, racing events by the Hall of Fame rider who called the East Coast home for most of her career. Among Krone's splashes: She stole the show on opening day at Santa Anita last December, winning the Malibu with Debonair deb·o·nair also deb·o·naire adj. 1. Suave; urbane. 2. Affable; genial. 3. Carefree and gay; jaunty. Joe to be the first Grade I-winning woman jockey in California; won the Pacific Classic at Del Mar in August to be the first $1 million-race-winning woman rider; won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies The Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies is a 1 1/16-mile thoroughbred horse race on dirt (although the distance has varied, depending on the configuration of the host track) for two-year-old fillies run annually since 1984 at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part with Halfbridled at Santa Anita to be the first Breeders' Cup-winning woman rider; and won two races at last month's California Cup at Santa Anita. --Notes: Trainer Mike Harte has died at age 57 after suffering a heart attack last week. Harte, 57, was born in Ireland but spent most of his career in Southern California. Services are scheduled today at 2 p.m. at St. Rita's Church in Sierra Madre. ... Pat Valenzuela, who missed the first three days of the 31-day Hollywood Park meet, has gone to the top of the jockey standings with 17 victories at the midway point . ... At the New Jersey Meadowlands on Saturday night, No Pan Intended and driver David Miller won the Breeders Crown 3-year-old Colts and Geldings Pace, making the horse the first to win harness racing's Triple Crown and a Breeders Crown race. Kevin Modesti, (818) 713-3616 kevin.modesti(at)dailynews.com |
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