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Three-time Eclipse Award winner Irad Ortiz, Jr. ventured out west to Santa Anita from his Belmont Park base on Monday for seven assignments.
Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. wins two Grade 1 stakes and qualifies Count Again for the Breeders' Cup Mile as Santa Anita closes in on end of its six-month season.
Last early, Count Again pounced like a big cat when it counted to take Monday’s $500,000 Shoemaker Mile (G1) going away by 2 ¼ lengths, thus providing Eastern kingpin Irad Ortiz Jr. with his second consecutive Grade I stakes win on the Memorial Day card at Santa Anita.
With a mandatory payout in Santa Anita's Rainbow Pick 6 Jackpot wager, there were 4,595 winning tickets worth $889.62 each.