STUTES THRIVING IN STRETCH RUN OF LIFE.Byline: KEVIN MODESTI Horse Racing horse racing, trials of speed involving two or more horses. It includes races among harnessed horses with one of two particular gaits, among saddled Thoroughbreds (or, less frequently, quarterhorses) on a flat track, or among saddled horses over a turf course with In what should be the autumn of their careers, the Stute brothers are having a sensational summer. Mel Stute is 75, the grandfather of six, and says he's sleepless and prone to nightmares since quadruple-bypass heart surgery in December 2000. Warren Stute is 80, the grandfather of four and great-grandfather of three, and says he has bouts of numbness following a ``mini-stroke'' this year that forced him to finally quit galloping his own horses. ``Price of getting old,'' Warren says cheerfully enough. But the trainers' age and infirmities haven't slowed their horses at Del Mar Del Mar is the name of several places in the United States of America:
On Aug. 3, Mel saddled a 4-year-old gray filly named Warren's Whistle for whistle for Verb Informal to expect in vain: he could whistle for his vote in the future a come-from-behind sprint victory in the $60,000 Fantastic Girl Stakes, and the next afternoon Warren sent out the 5-year-old horse Grey Memo for a last-to-first rally at 14-1 odds in the $250,000 San Diego Handicap The San Diego Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. The race is open to horses, age three and up, willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. The race carries a purse of 300,000. . The following Saturday, Mel won the $150,000 Sorrento Stakes The Sorrento Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. It is open only to two-year-old fillies and is run at a distance of six and one-half furlongs on the dirt. A Grade III, it offers a purse of $150,000. for 2-year-old fillies with favorite Buffythecenterfold, and Monday Warren captured the $100,000 Real Good Deal Stakes for 3-year-olds with front-running favorite Hot War. In a 10-day span, Del Mar put up purses for eight stakes races, and the Stute brothers made off with four of them. Operating separate but adjacent barns at the seaside track in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. County, the Stutes are delighting in their - and each other's - rejuvenation Rejuvenation Aeson in extreme old age, restored to youth by Medea. [Rom. Myth.: LLEI, I: 322] apples of perpetual youth by tasting the golden apples kept by Idhunn, the gods preserved their youth. [Scand. Myth. . ``It's a wonderful feeling,'' Mel said on his cell phone as he made his morning ``health walk'' Thursday at Del Mar. ``There were a couple of years when we were struggling.'' ``Winning makes you more anxious to come out in the morning,'' Warren said on the phone from his brother's office. ``I enjoy getting to the winner's circle.'' And both men realize that fans have enjoyed seeing them celebrating big victories again. ``Most of the people who bet the races are the old faithful,'' Mel said. ``They say it feels like the old days again.'' ``They like to see the old guys win,'' Warren said. The Stute (pronounced stoo-tee) brothers opened their public stables in the 1940s, Warren getting his first victories at Caliente, Mel breaking through at Portland Meadows. Warren went on to team successfully with owner Clement L. Hirsch for decades of victories that included Figonero's 1969 Hollywood Gold Cup The Hollywood Gold Cup is a Grade I stakes race for thoroughbred horses inaugurated in 1938 at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. It was run as a handicap race until 1997 when it was switched to weight-for-age conditions. . When Warren trained Great Circle to win the 1951 Santa Anita Maturity (now the Strub Stakes), it marked the first six-figure purse for the trainer and for jockey Bill Shoemaker. Mel made his biggest splash by training Snow Chief to win the Preakness Stakes and the 3-year-old championship in 1986, the same year his Brave Raj was the 2-year-old fillies champion, a year before his Very Subtle won the 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 . On the local level, Mel's distinctions include the all-time wins record at the Los Angeles County Fair The Los Angeles County Fair (also called simply the L.A. County Fair) is an annual event held in the Fairplex in Pomona, California, held every September. It is a carnival with rides, merchants, food vendors, cooking contests, and livestock. The 2007 L.A. and having a mezzanine bar named for him at Hollywood Park. Just when you thought the Stutes were winding down, they started collecting stakes trophies again. Mel credits good timing, such as having a former client phone to renew acquaintances just as the trainer was looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. somebody to buy this promising young filly he's spotted. Allen Brian bought the filly, named her after November 2000 Playboy Playmate Buffy Tyler. Now Stute thinks Buffythecenterfold is a contender for the Aug. 31 Del Mar Debutante. If Mel Stute does win the Debutante, it will have taken him only 51 years longer than Warren Stute, who won the sprint's inaugural running with Tonga in 1951. Warren chalks his resurgence up to good sense. After seeing his barn shrink to six horses because he refused to share owners with other trainers, he decided to ``give a little.'' His roster is back to 20 horses. Grey Memo could run in the $1 million Pacific Classic a week from Sunday against the likes of War Emblem, Came Home, Milwaukee Brew and Sky Jack. Autumn will have to wait. --The weekend: Beat Hollow, with Jerry Bailey taking over from Alex Solis, is the 6-5 favorite over his foil Sarafan and seven others in the Arlington Million on Saturday. The Million heads a program of major turf races at Chicago's Arlington Park, including the Beverly D. Stakes The Beverly D. Stakes is a Grade 1 flat horse race in the United States for thoroughbred fillies and mares aged three-years-old and upward. The Beverly D. Stakes is the fillies' counterpart of the Arlington Million and is raced on the same day and on the same turf course at , in which Astra and Kent Desormeaux will attempt to avenge the mare's loss to England's Legend last year. At Saratoga, Bella Bellucci (Mike Smith) and You head the Alabama Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. Del Mar has Saturday's La Jolla Stakes, the 3-year-olds' main prep for the Sept. 7 Del Mar Derby The Del Mar Derby is an American thoroughbred horse race run each year at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. The race is open to horses of either gender, age three, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the turf. , and Sunday's Pat O'Brien Handicap The Pat O'Brien Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. The Grade II race was named in honor of actor and Del Mar Racetrack co-founder, Pat O'Brien. , with Bing Crosby winner Disturbingthepeace (Victor Espinoza) seeking his sixth consecutive victory. --Day time: Pat Day's victory aboard With Anticipation in Saratoga's Sword Dancer Invitational on Saturday pushed the jockey into the all-time earnings lead, breaking the recently retired Chris McCarron's record of $264,351,679 in purses. Day earned his edge over McCarron in years of head-to-head competition in Breeders' Cup races. Each has made 101 starts at the Breeders' Cup, and Day's horses have won 12 races and $21.7 million, McCarron's nine races and $17.6 million. In Breeders' Cup races in which both rode, Day's horses had the edge in the betting 40 times, McCarron's 36 times, and three times they were even or coupled on the tote board. Day finished ahead 48 times, McCarron 31. But all three times that they finished 1-2 in a Breeders' Cup race - always in the Classic - McCarron rode the winner: Alysheba (over Seeking the Gold Seeking The Gold (foaled 1985 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by the leading stud, Mr. Prospector, who in turn was a son of Raise a Native, out of the mare, Con Game. ) in 1988, Sunday Silence (Easy Goer) in 1989 and Alphabet Soup (Louis Quatorze) in 1996. OUT OF THE GATE DEL MAR STANDINGS Through Wednesday Jockeys / Wins Pat Valenzuela / 20 Eddie Delahoussaye / 15 Laffit Pincay / 15 Alex Solis / 14 Kent Desormeaux / 12 Trainers / Wins Bill Spawr / 11 Bob Baffert / 10 John Sadler / 6 Craig Lewis / 5 Ron McAnally / 5 PINCAY WATCH Laffit Pincay, whose record career-victories total is up to 9,404, began Thursday needing six wins to be the first to reach 1,000 at Del Mar. ON THE STAKES SCHEDULE Del Mar Saturday --$150,000 La Jolla Handicap The La Jolla Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. The La Jolla is open to horses, age three, willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the turf. , 3-year-olds, 1 1/16 miles on turf Sunday --$150,000 Pat O'Brien Handicap, 3-year-olds and up, 7 furlongs Wednesday --$300,000 Best Pal, 2-year-olds, 6 1/2 furlongs Arlington Park Saturday --$1 million Arlington Million, 3-year-olds and up, 1 1/4 miles on turf --$700,000 Beverly D., 3-year-olds and up, fillies and mares,1 3/16 miles on turf --$400,000 Secretariat, 3-year-olds, 1 1/4 miles on turf Saratoga Saturday --$750,000 Alabama, 3-year-old fillies, 1 1/4 miles Monmouth Park Sunday --$350,000 Iselin Handicap, 3-year-olds and up, 1 1/8 miles A WEEK AT THE RACES At The Races is a British television channel, originally co-founded with Channel 4, but now owned by a partnership between British Sky Broadcasting, Arena Leisure PLC and 28 (out of the 59) UK racecourses. Shane Sellers, rider of 3,715 winners, mostly in the East, told the Daily Racing Form The Daily Racing Form, LLC (DRF) is a broadsheet newspaper founded in 1894 in Chicago, Illinois by Frank Brunell. The paper publishes the past performances of race horses as a statistical service for bettors on horse racing in the United States. he is retiring at age 35, calling off plans to return full-time from a serious knee injury suffered in a 2000 post parade at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans. Sellers won riding titles at Churchill Downs, Keeneland and Gulfstream and Arlington parks. ... Del Mar, which announced a 5 percent increase in non-stakes purses for the rest of the season, has seen rises of 5.7 percent in on-site attendance, 6.7 percent in overall wagering, the latter owing in part to more than $10 million in telephone and Internet betting in the meet's first two weeks. ... Bill Spawr took the Del Mar trainers' lead from Bob Baffert with three victories Monday and Wednesday. ... Belmont Park is seeking to skip its scheduled live racing card on Wednesday, Sept. 11, the anniversary of the terrorist attacks, and switch those races to the Monday before. ... A virus affecting many 2-year-olds stabled at Del Mar has sidelined Baffert's Friendly Mike and Eoin Harty's Inamorato in·am·o·ra·to n. pl. in·am·o·ra·tos A man with whom one is in love or has an intimate relationship. [Italian innamorato, from past participle of innamorare, to enamor , but Baffert indicated Del Mar winners Vindication, Icecoldbeeratreds and Bull Market have not been sick. CAPTION(S): box Box: OUT OF THE GATE (see text) |
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