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It’s been an enjoyable Thanksgiving Day play for jockey Kent Desormeaux, who registered his 2nd Turf Festival triumph successful 2 days astatine Del Mar connected Saturday aboard the John Shirreffs-trained Beyond Brilliant.
The equine is aptly named due to the fact that it was different superb thrust by Desormeaux, who expertly guided Say the Word to a come-from-behind triumph successful Friday’s $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup for trainer Philip D’Amato.
Desormeaux’s latest triumph came successful the $400,000 Grade I Hollywood Derby for 3-year-olds and much than made up for a third-place decorativeness by the Twirling Candy colt successful the Grade II Twilight Derby astatine Santa Anita connected Oct. 31.
This time, dissimilar his triumph Friday, the 51-year-old Desormeaux spurted to the aboriginal pb aboard Beyond Brilliant, a 10-1 outsider successful the wagering, nursed him done splits of 23.96, 49.23 and 1:13.62 earlier holding connected to bushed 17-1 longshot Santin by a neck.
Final clip for the 1 1/8 miles was 1:48.84.
“All recognition for this triumph goes to the barn,” said Desormeaux aft winning his 87th beingness Del Mar stakes contention and archetypal Hollywood Derby. “They’ve done wonders with this equine implicit the past month. When I rode him past clip astatine Santa Anita, helium was a fistful to control. Today helium was easy.”
Said Shirreffs: “This equine likes to beryllium connected the pb oregon adjacent to the lead. Obviously, with a large tract (14 horses), that’s a bully spot to be.”
Like everyone other with an involvement successful the sport, Shirreffs has taken enactment of the rejuvenated Desormeaux’s riding. After a beardown Del Mar summertime meet, he’s 4th successful the Bing Crosby conscionable jockey standings with 8 victories.
“Kent Desormeaux is riding large close now, isn’t he?” Shirreffs remarked. “I’m gonna enactment Kent connected much horses, he’s riding truthful well. I’m thankful for him doing it for america today.”
For Shirreffs, it was his 20th stakes triumph astatine Del Mar and his archetypal successful the Hollywood Derby.
The triumph by Beyond Brilliant was his archetypal stakes people and 3rd successful 9 starts. The winner’s stock of $240,000 boosted his vocation net to $381,280.
Seabiscuit Handicap
Jockey Umberto Rispoli made an aboriginal determination for the pb aboard Field Pass up the backside and hung connected to decision the onrushing Sacred Life by a caput successful the $250,000 Grade II lawsuit for 3-year-olds and older.
Trained by Michael Maker, the 4-year-old Lemon Drop Kid colt mislaid by a cervix successful the Grade III Knickerbocker Stakes astatine Belmont Park successful his past commencement connected Oct. 10, but this clip the photograph went his way.
The 7-2 3rd prime successful the wagering won for the eighth clip successful 23 starts portion picking up the apical prize of $150,000. Final clip was 1:41.85 for the mile and a sixteenth.Sacred Life, the 4-5 favourite trained by Chad Brown, outlasted 28-1 longshot Indian Peak for 2nd by three-quarters of a length.
“I didn’t privation to halt the stride of my horse,” Rispoli said of his aboriginal move. “He was moving happy, and I was happy, too. He fought hard precocious and we got determination first.”
Jimmy Durante Stakes
Tezzaray, with Irad Ortiz Jr. successful the saddle, got up successful clip to borderline Awake At Midnyte by a chemoreceptor successful the $100,000 Grade III stakes for 2-year-old fillies.
The girl of Bated Breath, trained by Peter Miller, came successful disconnected a maiden triumph astatine Del Mar connected Nov. 3 successful the 3rd commencement of her career.
Sent postward arsenic the 3-1 2nd betting prime down 2-1 favourite Helens Well, Tezzaray tracked from 4th aboriginal connected successful the 1-mile contention and closed powerfully connected the extracurricular of Awake At Midnyte to gain the $60,000 winner’s stock portion turning successful a last clip of 1:37.56.
“I had assurance successful her,” Miller said. “She’s 1 of those fillies that are precise classy and does everything right.”
Of the photo, helium said: “I thought we won, past I thought we didn’t. Luckily, we got the caput bob.”
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