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Brandothebartender and jockey Umberto Rispoli win the California Dreamin Stakes at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club.
The hard-knocking veteran Brandothebartender set em up and knocked em down late Sunday in capturing the $152,000 California Dreamin Stakes by a half-length at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif.
The 8-year-old gelding by Tribal Rule made the 46th start of his career a winner and took down the top share of $85,500 from the purse for California-breds. He now has total winnings of $772,864 after six seasons at the racetrack and a performance record that reads 46-9-7-15.
Umberto Rispoli was aboard the winner, the 12th time he s ridden him in a race. The bay veteran is trained by Craig Dollase, who got his owners to invest $40,000 in claiming him three years ago at Del Mar. The ownership group consists of Flawless Racing of Jerry Weseloh and Brian Flanagan, both of San Diego, and Michael Jarvis of Manhattan Beach, CA.
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Galilean wins the Soi Phet Stakes at Los Alamitos Race Course.
Trainer John Sadler will send out defending champion Galilean in Sunday s featured $150,000 California Dreamin Stakes and has a three-horse contingent in the $80,000 Daisycutter Handicap earlier in the program at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif.
At the very least, Sadler s charges figure to factor strongly in both events as the 64-year-old Pasadena native seeks to add to his 78 Del Mar stakes victories, second on the track s all-time list behind Bob Baffert.
Galilean, a 5-year-old son of Uncle Mo owned by West Point Thoroughbreds and partners, moved between rivals to get a clear lead entering the stretch and held on for a half-length victory as the 3-2 favorite in last year s California Dreamin , a 1 1/16-mile turf assignment for California breds. It was the fourth start in a seven-race 2020 campaign that has netted earnings of $217,098.
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With Goat In Tow, North County Guy Ships To Santa Anita, Captures Unusual Heat Turf Classic Sponsored by:
North County Guy scores a hard-fought neck victory over Heck Yeah under Mario Gutierrez
Content to sit well off the early pace, North County Guy wheeled four-wide at the top of the stretch en route to a hard-earned neck victory in Saturday s $200,000 Unusual Heat Turf Classic at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. Trained by Richard Baltas and ridden by Mario Gutierrez, North County Guy, a 6-year-old gelding by The Pamplemousse, got a mile and one eighth in 1:46.34 on firm turf.
Presented by City National Bank, the Unusual Heat Turf Classic is part of the CTBA s lucrative Golden State Series for eligible California-bred or sired horses.