STEVENS GOES ALONG FOR RIDE.Byline: Kevin Modesti Daily News Staff Writer Gary Stevens
A Grade II event, it offers a purse of $150,000. Sunday at Santa Anita Santa Anita may refer to:
Which means no moves at all. Tychonic is one of those contrary horses who don't run any faster if you whip them and jerk the reins. So it wasn't only confidence that made Stevens sit as quiet as a statue as Tychonic inched away from Debutant De`bu`tant´ n. 1. A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public. Trick and Kent Desormeaux Kent J. Desormeaux (born February 27, 1970, in Maurice, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana) is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who holds the U.S. record for most races won in a single year. in the final furlong of the mile turf race. "He'll give you what he's got as long as you don't try to make him do it," Stevens said. "I let him think he's in charge." It became a two-horse race after favorite and front-runner Romarin began his fade to sixth. Debutant Trick was ending a three-month layoff. "He ran great, and I had to give the winner a pound," trainer Gary Jones said - in one of the all-time excuses - after Debutant Trick (117 pounds) lost by half a length to Tychonic (116). Tychonic, trained by Bobby Frankel, paid $6.80 for the classiest of his four straight victories. In the pink: Mr Purple was reported in good shape a day after winning the $1 million Santa Anita Handicap The Santa Anita Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in the late winter at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. It is a Grade I race for horses three years old and up, and is considered the most important race for older horses in North America during at 18-1. His next race could be the $750,000 Oaklawn Handicap on April 6. Rash services: Funeral services for Rodney Rash are scheduled for 5:30 p.m. today at Forest Lawn in Burbank. An earlier announcement named the wrong mortuary. Rash, trainer of 1995 Santa Anita Handicap winner Urgent Request, was 36 when he died Friday of complications from a blood disorder. Rash's assistant, Ben Cecil, will travel with Celtic Arms (to the Pan American at Gulfstream Park on Saturday) and Gold and Steel (to the New Orleans Handicap The New Orleans Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. Open to horses four years old and up, the race is run at a distance of one and one-eighth miles on the dirt. It currently offers a purse of $500,000. on Sunday). Cecil, 27-year-old nephew of English trainer Henry Cecil, said he is now training all of Rash's horses. "I've been amazed, and very grateful, that all of Rodney's owners have shown confidence in me," he said. Also in the Pan American: Northern Spur. Also in the New Orleans: Del Mar Dennis. Notes: A day after Serena's Song's not-quite-1-1/4-mile effort in the Santa Anita Handicap, 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 he hadn't ruled out running her back in the Santa Margarita Invitational next Sunday. "But she'll probably go in the Apple Blossom (April 12 at Oaklawn Park)," Lukas said. Serena's Song took a short lead into the stretch but finished seventh in the Big 'Cap. "She knows how to take care of herself," Lukas said. |
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