SANTA ANITA: DIXIE DOT COM GETS DUE.Byline: Kevin Modesti Daily News Staff Writer The San Francisco-area tracks rarely produce one good 3-year-old a season, let alone two good ones, as they did last winter. The only thing stranger than Dixie Dot Com and Event of the Year showing up in the same generation is the fact they never raced against each other. First one got hurt and then the other, so Dixie Dot Com had to wait for the $316,000 San Fernando Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday to take a shot at the better-publicized Event of the Year and stomp him by 4-1/2 lengths. Event of the Year, ridden by Corey Nakatani, was a heavy favorite in the field of eight 4-year-olds. Dixie Dot Com, with leading jockey 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 , was the fans' fourth choice. Old reputations die hard. ``I looked at Event of the Year in the paddock,'' said Dixie Dot Com trainer Bill Morey Jr., ``and if I can say anything, I'd say we grew a little bit more than he did.'' Dixie Dot Com, a son of Dixie Brass who was 3 for 4 at Bay Meadows and Golden Gate Fields Golden Gate Fields is a horse racing track straddling both Albany, California and Berkeley, California along the shoreline of San Francisco Bay adjacent to the before fracturing his right foreleg in February, has improved since coming back in September at Fairplex Park. But he'd finished second three times in a row. ``This is a great way to break our seconditis,'' said Morey, 59, who brought six horses to Southern California and has been living in a trailer. Dixie Dot Com ran the 1 1/16-mile race in 1:41.06, a sharp time on a track that acted dull most of the day. Morey said he'll aim for the Feb. 6 Strub Stakes. For Event of the Year, who was unbeaten and favored for the Kentucky Derby before he fractured a knee last April, it was the second straight defeat since his return. He was third in the Malibu Stakes on opening day. ``He ran well,'' said Richard Mandella, who trains Event of the Year. ``The winner ran a hell of a race.'' At least Event of the Year looked best of the Malibu grads. Malibu winner Run Man Run finished fourth. Artax was seventh after holding a contested early lead. Mail Coach was fifth, Old Topper Topper house he purchases is haunted by the young couple who owned it previously and their dog. [Am. Lit., Cin., TV: Topper in Halliwell, 718] See : Ghost Topper Hopalong Cassidy’s faithful horse. third, Yarrow yarrow, a plant of the genus Achillea, perennial herbs of the family Asteraceae (aster family), native to north temperate regions. Several species are cultivated as ornamentals for their flat-topped clusters of flowers and scented foliage. Brae brae n. Scots A hillside; a slope. [Middle English bra, from Old Norse br sixth. Dixie Dot Com had to race wide on both turns but got the lead at the top of the stretch and drew off. He paid $12.40 for a $2 win bet. The San Francisco 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. , the reverse what most fans up there would have predicted, returned $17.50 for $1. Notes: Eddie Delahoussaye's turf win aboard Self Feeder put the jockey within six of the 6,000 mark. He's on six horses today, including Tranquility Lake in the El Encino, in which Manistique is 2-5. . . . Pick-six carryover: $192,476. . . . The San Gorgonio Handicap The San Gorgiono Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Santa Anita Park each year. A Grade II event, the San Gorgiono Handicap is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the turf. The race carries a purse of $150,000. boiled down to a two-mare race as expected before See You Soon ($4.80) and Kent Desormeaux wore down Sonja's Faith to win by a neck. . . . Upsets in early-season 3-year-old stakes: Grits'n Hard Toast ($31.20) and Robbie Davis caught Donerail Court to win the Holy Bull Stakes The Holy Bull Stakes, once known as the Preview Stakes, is a race for thoroughbred horses dedicated to the famous race horse Holy Bull. It is held in April at Gulfstream Park and open to three-year-olds willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the dirt. at Gulfstream Park. Vicar was fifth. Epic Honor ($9) and Lonnie Meche beat entrymate Blue Tune in the Golden Gate Derby The Golden Gate Derby is a race for thoroughbred horses run each year at Golden Gate Fields at a distance of one and one sixteenth of a mile and open to three-year-olds. A Grade III event, also known as the California Derby, it offers a purse of $100,000. . |
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