The Padre (Benoit photo)
From the Mar Press
Del Mar, Calif.- A well-made Bay Colt called The father Came late in the Nine Furlong Caesars Sportsbook del Mar Derby on the Oval coast on Sunday and his field cleared up to catch the 79th edition of Grass Test with a length in 1: 49.23.
Umberto Rispoli rode with faith on the son of the Irish stallion Ghaiyyath and earned the first prize of $ 180,000 from the gross wallet of $ 300,000 in the class II testing. He defeated four other 3-year-olds in the process and earned even more awards at the meeting for trainer Phil d’Amato, who has now conquered seven interests during the session.
Secondly, ending in the “Derby” was blinking on Racing Stable, Corbett, et al’s Freedom’s Not Free, who had a neck on Jethorse’s Game Warrior.
“I am very impressed by this horse. The last two races – not a pace – and he is not a pace -horse,” D’Amato noted. “But he has a huge turn of foot and to overcome really slow fractions, just as it only shows that he is a real running horse. I think the end of the year will be something like the degree I Hollywood Derby. We will just work that, make him a figure I winner and develop him for next year.”
De Padre is owned by a partnership led by the people of Little Red Feather Racing and accompanied by Sterling Stables of Navyy. Their runner won his third race of the year in his fourth start and raised his income to $ 259,585. It was his first graduate victory.
“No, Phil (trainer d’Amato) does not give me instructions for the race. He says you know the horse better than me. The pace was slow; I could see that. But I was sitting with a handful horse. I was not worried. When I asked, he replied. He was a nice horse,” said Rispoli.
The commitment was the sixth of the meeting for Rispoli and his third victory in the Caesars Sportsbook del Mar Derby.
Racing will continue tomorrow to close the holiday weekend on the coast. First post for the Labor Day card is 1:30 pm
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