Kent Desormeaux 'Rallye Highlights Cal-Breds Day in Santa Anita-San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Arcadia-es is said to be a shop window for the best California horses, but the show was stolen on Saturday in five stakes races in Santa Anita of Jockeys.

The multi-year-old Santa Anita leader Juan Hernandez made no mistake on board the Equine star of the day, sent the Kings River River forward with the right of Kings River and led the whole way when the 7-year-old gelding won the $ 100,000 crystal water states for the lawnmiller for the third time in a row and paid $ 2.40.

Others did more dramatic.

Kazushi Kimura, suddenly again in a January broken, cost him time and business. He jumped the great annoyance of the day in a rally on board the 3-year-old gelding Santa Barbarian ($ 89.20) at the $ 125,000 snow.

Umberto Rispoli, who is still hitting journalism, ensured a 4-year-old private jewel ($ 7) with a perfect mid-pack trip and gathered to achieve a mild surprise in the $ 100,000 sprint from Thor's Echo Stakes.

And the most entertaining of all, Kent Desormeaux, the 55-year-old Hall of Famer, who had setbacks because of alcohol, asked all his experiences to help the 3-year-old Stutfohlen Om N Joy ($ 6) to recover from a terrible start to win the $ 125,000 melair.

“She turned out to be much better than I thought that she was because she had no right today to win (after the bad start) and she did it anyway,” said Demoraux, giving the Stutfalen and coach Aggie Ordonez.

Desormeaux said Om n Joy threw her head when the goal for the 1 1/16 mile melair opened. Usually in contact with the leaders at the beginning of their races, Om N Joy was still a distant load in the area of ​​six, nine lengths behind the guide Fibonaccis Ride to drive home. The winner caught 15-1 in the last courtyards and won with half a length.

“That's why they drive with Kent Desormeaux,” said Ordonez.

Desormeaux said that the key had not tried to regain all of these lost lengths too quickly.

“(This is) just like I drove for (32,985) mount,” said Desormeaux. “This is not a plan A (or) C or D, that is Plan F. It is only (to) try to get into a position that is time to go.

“In the distant turn I said: 'Ok, show me what you have.' It is enormous. “

Private Gem won his third in a row and first at the level of the missions to reward coach Mark Glatt because he changed the 4-year-old son of the Lookin At Lucky from Turf Back to Dirt.

“Umberto drove a perfect race,” said Glatt. “Maybe we would have beaten smart anyway, but it didn't hurt my feelings that it became addicted to rapid political groups (from Tapatio Leo).”

Kings River Knight won the 11th time in 18 career starts, including seven wins.

“He's just a hard horse and it is easy to love him,” said coach John Sadler.

Kimura's victory was his first in a race in Santa Anita Stakes since the talented Japanese jockey accident on January 16, although he won with the brilliant 4-year-old Stutfal Kopion in class I. Distaffe from Derby City in Churchill Downs. Kimura added a profit at the registration level without a cap ($ 16.40).

“It was nice to see that KAZ was gaining an assignment,” said George PapaProdromou, coach of Sneaker, did not know that another big big one would come for Kimura later a day.

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Perhaps the stage was set for an afternoon border point for Jockeys in Santa Anita when Kyle Frey was less victory of $ 28.40 in the first race, 24 hours after Navy Jack's fall sent the jockey to the hospital for examination. Frey was sore but escaped an injury. Navy Jack was reported OK on Sunday. … The accident on the first race on Friday led to suspensions of two other jockeys. Armando Aguilar, who drove the Mongolian Altai, was laid down by the Santa Anita Stewards for seven days. Adrian Escobedo, who was on White Mountain, got three days. … Splendora, who followed Copion and Richi, is 6: 5 in the morning line, with Juan Hernandez in Grade II Santa Margarita Stakes on Sunday for Bob Baffert.