Frey wins five straight at Golden Gate

Kyle Frey won five straight races Thursday as Golden Gate Fields opened its summer meeting.

After running third on Quetta's in Charge in the first race, Frey won the next five races, including three for trainer Isidro Tamayo, before finishing fourth aboard favored Sunblessed in the final race.

Frey, who led all riders in the two-week Wine Country Racing meet with 10 winners from 38 mounts, won the second race aboard favored Barbaroni ($5) for trainer Jonathan Wong.

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He and Tamayo teamed up in the third race with favored Fruitfully ($5.40) before he won with Posh Holly ($8.80) for trainer Steve Sherman.

Frey and Tamayo won the next two races with Desert Smoke ($12.40) in the fifth and favored Maxinamillion ($5.20) in the sixth.

Frey won the 2011 Eclipse Award as the nation's leading apprentice rider.