DEL MAR, Calif. - Maybe Healthy Addiction should stay in training next year instead of being sent to Kentucky to be bred. The 5-year-old mare is certainly having a career-best season.
Sunday at Del Mar, Healthy Addiction ($9) won her third stakes of 2006 in the $300,000 . Ridden by Victor Espinoza, Healthy Addiction ran 1 1-16 miles in 1:42.92, holding off a determined stretch run from Louisiana invader Happy Ticket to win by 1 3-4 lengths. Star Parade finished third in the field of five fillies and mares.