Del Mar broke strongly from the gate, with across-the-board increases in ontrack handle, overall handle, and ontrack attendance through the first week of the meet, which ended Sunday.
So Long George has come a long way since finishing last of eight in a maiden $32,000 claiming race here Nov. 18, 2011. Last Sunday, the 4-year-old So Long George reached a new plateau when he rallied under Emma-Jayne Wilson to win the Grade 2, $216,000 Nijinsky Stakes by three-quarters of a length.
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When the horses crossed the finish line in the final race at Louisiana Downs on Saturday, the track announcer exclaimed, "Tsavo is a two-length winner, taking down the Super Pick Five!" Thus begun perhaps the worst bad-beat stories in the annals of horseplaying.
Spring Moon made an auspicious debut on Saturday at Del Mar, running unchallenged in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race and drawing off to win by four lengths under jockey Martin Garcia.
European Horse of the Year Sea The Stars, winner of the 2009 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, was represented by his first winner on Monday when Stars Over the Sea took the first race at Ayr in England.
Forefathers, a multiple graded stakes-placed half-brother to Grade 1 winner Pioneerof the Nile, was represented by his first winner at stud on Saturday when Home of America won a maiden claiming race at Gulfstream Park by 3 3/4 lengths.
At Delaware Park, a 21-year-old apprentice from Puerto Rico named Victor Carrasco has fans and horsemen drawing comparisons between the young rider and Ramon Dominguez in his early days.
