TRAINER HOPES DARE AND GO `KEEPS ROLLING' IN GOODWOOD.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Dare and Go will always be known as the horse who stopped Cigar's 16-race win streak in the Pacific Classic at Del Mar Del Mar is the name of several places in the United States of America:
``I just hope I've got him back to where he was for the Pacific Classic,'' trainer Richard Mandella said. ``He really hit his best stride for that race.'' Dare and Go captured the Grade I Strub Stakes and finished third in the 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 back in the winter of 1995, but he had been consistently troubled by nagging injuries until this summer. ``Ever since halfway through the Hollywood Park meet, he's finally got his problems behind him and he's just gone forward,'' Mandella said. ``We just hope he keeps rolling.'' Dare and Go will have just three rivals in the 1-1/8-mile Goodwood, which will be run as the fifth race at approximately at 2:30 p.m. The Goodwood field: Dare And Go, Alex Solis, 122 pounds, 1-1; Savinio, Corey Nakatani, 117, 4-1; Powerful Punch, Kent Desormeaux, 112, 8-1, and Alphabet Soup, Chris McCarron, 120, 6-5. The race will be part of NBC's Breeders' Cup Preview broadcast from 1:30-3 p.m. The show will originate from Belmont Park, where Cigar faces top 3-year-olds Skip Away, Editor's Note and Louis Quatorze in the $1-million Jockey Club Gold Cup The Jockey Club Gold Cup, established in 1919, is a prestigious thoroughbred flat race open to horses of either gender three-years-old and up. It is typically the main event of the fall meeting at Belmont Park, just as the Belmont Stakes is of the spring meeting and the Travers . That race will be simulcast at Santa Anita at approximately 2:45 p.m. Should all go well for them today, Dare and Go and Cigar are headed for a rematch in the Breeders' Cup Classic The Breeders' Cup Classic is a Grade 1 Weight for Age thoroughbred horse race for 3 years old and older run at a distance of 1¼ miles (2012 m) on dirt. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup. on Oct. 26 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 in Toronto. Oak Tree will have two other live stakes today: the $175,000 Oak Tree Mile on the turf (to be run as the third race) and the $200,000 Oak Leaf Stakes The Oak Leaf Stakes is a race for thoroughbred horses restricted to two-year-old fillies and thus is a major prep race for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. The Grade I race is held at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt track at Santa Anita Park's Oak Tree (eighth race). In the Mile, 7-year-old Megan's Interco is the morning-line 9-5 choice. The Jenine Sahadi-trained runner has won 13 of his 27 starts, eight of 15 turf starts and six of nine starts at one mile on the turf. ``He runs his race every time. That's why I was so disturbed with his race up north,'' Sahadi said, referring to his recent fourth-place finish as the 2-5 favorite in the San Francisco Handicap. ``But we went over him with a fine tooth comb and he looked fine. And after two great works, we just have to throw the race out.'' The Interco gelding gelding castrated male horse. has been lightly raced throughout his career, and has been a constant challenge for Sahadi. ``He's become a very popular horse the last couple years,'' Sahadi explained. In 1994, the veteran miler mil·er n. Sports One that competes in races one mile long. miler Noun an athlete, horse, etc., that specializes in races of one mile Noun 1. took on the best and finished fourth in the $1-million Breeders' Cup Mile. On TV: Besides NBC's coverage of the Goodwood, four Oak Tree stakes The Oak Tree Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for thoroughbred fillies and mares. It is run over a distance of 7 furlongs (1,408 metres) at Goodwood Racecourse during the Glorious Goodwood meeting in late July or early August. races will be broadcast on Prime Sports and ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network 2 this weekend at Santa Anita. Prime Sports will broadcast a special one-hour telecast from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, featuring the $300,000 Oak Tree Turf Championship and the $200,000 Norfolk Stakes. Altogether, Prime will package five ``Santa Anita Today'' broadcasts - to be shown each Sunday afternoon from Sunday 6 through Nov. 3 at 3:30 p.m.. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Dare and Go, who beat Cigar in the PAcific Clasic at Del Mar, faces three rivals today in the Goodwood Handicap at Santa Anita. Daily News File Photo |
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