KING OF THE HEAP STRETCHES OUT.Byline: Daily News Wire Services King of the Heap, who won the Malibu Stakes as a 12-1 shot on the opening day of the meeting, leads a field of 10 entered in today's $300,000-added San Fernando Breeders' Cup Stakes The San Fernando Breeders' Cup Stakes is an American race for thoroughbred horses run at Santa Anita Park each year. It's a Grade II event open to horses, age four and up, willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. at Santa Anita. King of the Heap will be ridden by Kent Desormeaux and will carry 120 pounds in the 45th running of the 1-1/8-mile race for 4-year-olds and up. The 7-furlong Malibu Stakes was the opening leg of the three-race Strub Series. The San Fernando Stakes is the middle leg; the finale is the 1-1/4-mile Strub Stakes, to be run Feb. 2. King of the Heap has won 4 of 9 lifetime starts and earned $222,950. King of the Heap has yet to run beyond 7 furlongs but has won 3 of 4 starts since Wally Dollase became his trainer. ``When he rates the way he did (in the Malibu), he should be able to go farther,'' Dollase said. ``We have to try the mile and an eighth.'' Victory Speech faded to finish sixth as the 11-10 favorite in the Malibu. Victory Speech has eight wins in 20 lifetime starts and earnings of $923,822. ``I'm throwing that race out,'' trainer D. Wayne Lukas Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935 in Antigo, Wisconsin) is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. said of Victory Speech's performance in the Malibu. ``The fast fractions did him in.'' Hesabull was second, Northern Afleet third, Ambivalent fourth and Dr. Caton last in the Malibu. King of the Heap ran last most of the way before beginning his winning rally. Alphabet Soup defends title: Alphabet Soup will attempt to repeat as winner of the $200,000-added San Pasqual Handicap The San Pasqual Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Santa Anita Park each year. The race is open to horses age three and up willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. It offers a purse of $150,000. Winners
Alphabet Soup will be ridden by Chris McCarron and was assigned high weight of 122 pounds for the 60th running of the San Pasqual, a 1 1/16-mile race for 4-year-olds and up. Alphabet Soup won last year's San Pasqual by 1-3/4 lengths over Luthier lu·thi·er n. One that makes or repairs stringed instruments, such as violins. [French, from luth, lute, from Old French lut; see lute1.] Noun 1. Fever, starting him on his way to an exceptional year capped by the victory over Cigar in the Breeders' Cup Classic at Woodbine woodbine, name for several vines, among them honeysuckle and Virginia creeper. woodbine Any of many species of vines belonging to various flowering-plant families, especially the Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia, family Vitaceae) of . Alphabet Soup won the Classic by a nose over Louis Quatorze, with Cigar another head back in third place. Also: Santa Anita will reinstitute a $1 minimum on exacta ex·act·a n. A method of betting, as on a horserace, in which the bettor must correctly pick those finishing in the first and second places in precisely that sequence. Also called perfecta. wagering, beginning with today's card. The $1 minimum is available at self-service and manned windows. |
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