NAKATANI FINDS SOLACE IN VICTORIES : MURDER OF SISTER ON JOCKEY'S MIND.Byline: John Nelson Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Jewel Princess won the $1 million Breeders' Cup Distaff The Breeders' Cup Distaff is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares, 3 years old and up. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup. It is sponsored by the airline Emirates. on Saturday, giving jockey Corey Nakatani ''' Corey S. Nakatani (born October 21, 1970 in Covina, California, United States) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. As of 2006, Nakatani has won more than 3000 races including the Kentucky Oaks twice, the Canadian International Stakes, the Dubai Golden his second straight Breeders' Cup The Breeders' Cup World Championships is an annual series of Grade I thoroughbred horse races operated by Breeders' Cup Limited, a company formed in 1982 by a consortium of North American racing organizations, led by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. victory and a feeling that maybe somebody was watching over him, after all. Still grieving the unsolved murder of his sister, Dawn, on Oct. 1 in West Covina, Nakatani said: ``I've got an angel on my side.'' Nakatani won the $1 million Breeders' Cup Sprint The Breeders' Cup Sprint is an American Weight for Age Grade I Thoroughbred horse race for three year olds & up. Run on dirt over a distance of 6 Furlongs (3/4 mile), the race has been held annually since 1984 at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the aboard Lit de Justice In France under the Ancien Régime, the lit de justice was a particular formal session of the Parlement of Paris, under the presidency of the king, for the compulsory registration of the royal edicts. just one race earlier and said, ``I know that Dawn got me there. It's really hard on me, but I'm trying to be strong.'' Trained at Santa Anita by Wally Dollase - Nakatani's father-in-law - Jewel Princess beat Serena's Song by 1-1/2 lengths, giving her a third victory this year over the 1995 3-year-old champion filly. Only seven fillies and mares were entered in the Distaff over 1-1/8 miles, and one of them, the Canadian-based Mysteriously, was scratched with a bad ankle. That left six in this traditionally small but tough Breeders' Cup race. Top Secret, ridden by Mike Smith, took the early lead and led until the field went into the turn for home. That's when Gary Stevens got Serena's Song moving. Serena's Song, trained by 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. , actually grabbed the lead briefly from Top Secret as the field straightened for home, but that's when Nakatani got Jewel Princess rolling on the rail. Jewel Princess, owned by California's Martha and Richard Stephen and the Thoroughbred Corporation, claimed the lead with less than a sixteenth of a mile to go and stretched it out to 1-1/2 lengths over Serena's Song, who was 1-3/4 lengths ahead of the Argentine-bred Different, suffering her first loss this year. My Flag was fourth, followed by Top Secret and Clear Mandate. Serena's Song now has lost six in a row but she has finished second five times and third once. Two of those previous second-place finishes were to Jewel Princess, in the Vanity on July 21 at Hollywood Park and in the Louisville Breeders' Cup on May 3 at Churchill Downs. Jewel Princess returned $6.80 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 . The time was a slow 1:48 2/5. Jewel Princess has won five of nine starts this year and two of her past three. The winner's share of $520,000 made her a millionaire, with $1,406,660 in career earnings. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1-2) Jockey Corey Nakatani was a double winner,taking the Breeders' Cup Distaff aboard Jewel Princess, left, and the Sprint on Lit de Justice, right. Associated Press |
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