Arcadia – Frankie Dateori on Sunday rode a newgate in the winner’s circle after Santa Anita Handicap, turned to those whom he knew, pumped up his fist and shouted: “I won the big ‘hat! I won the big’ hat!”
The jockey was saying a Kaur about a classic horse race, which is considered widely in the widespread fall for the growing competition from other winter events for heavyweight thorbred talent.
53-year-old Italian, Dateori has won most of the great races on Earth, which pays seven-Figure purses and Crown Champions.
But winning $ 500,000, grade I Santa Anita Handicap first meant the world for him.
Seven, rally from the fifth rally in one area of Newgate and Detori, ralled a 22–1 front-front-front to win a head and pay $ 8.40.
Nuclegate completed a natural hat trick of graded bets on the day for trainer Bob Befurt, which first $ 300,000, Kalpana with Grade II San Felip Stakes ($ 3.80) and Dateori, and grade I, $ 300,000 frank E. Won on turf with Kilro Miles ($ 8: 40) and Flavienne Prat.
BAFFERT-trained rebirth ran the third in the cap ‘cap. Phil D’Mato’s Newgrange, 3–1 favorite, quickly moved to sixth position in the area of seven-horse after chasing Sabnador from outside.
Last stakes of the afternoon, grade II was won by Edwin Maldonado for the Front-Ruby Nail ($ 3.60) and trainer Richard Mandela, a mile on the grass for Buena Vista Philiz and Maras.
Big ‘Cap Day attracted a crowd of 16,581 and a total of $ 16.4 million after postponing the card in a day due to Saturday’s heavy rains.
The Bada ‘Cap was the sixth for Triumph Befurt, which has won most of America’s great races.
“This is such a historic race,” Befurt said of the race, with the roster of superstar winners starting in 1935 in 1935, when it takes a purse of $ 100,000 in 1935, and simply to win it, for our team and with Frankie Ketori, it really makes it more special. ,
The four -year -old Nuclegate, who is like a mischief like San Visent winner Kalpana, won his first bet since 2023 Robert Lewis Stakes. Back to 11 months of retrenchment, he was in second place in an alternative-Dawa sprint and San Pascal stakes, which established him to win his first grade.
The newsget is the seventh consecutive big Big ‘cap winner, who moved to the early gate without grade I on his resume.
But such figures do not reduce the race in the eyes of winners like Dateori.
“When I was a child here in the late 80s,” Detori said, who used to ride Santa Anita as a trainee before spending her career in Europe, “had 60,000 to see Ferdinand and Alishaba, and you could not move.”
He was talking about the duality of 1988 Kentaki Derby winners, with Elisaba and Chris McCaron defeated Ferdinand and Bill Shomekar with a half length, records shows, 70,432 in Santa Anita.
“To win it, I can’t ask for anything else,” Detori said. “This is a big wing in my hat.”
On a rapidly listed track, but still dried up by Friday and Saturday’s storm, the fastest big ‘hat took place 2: 03.49 in about 50 years at a distance of 1 1/4 miles.
It seemed that Subsainador, John Sadler’s Argentina import, would hang under the hectare of the hectares – until the last stride.
“I followed Victor (Espinoza, on Newgrange) and I sat down very little to the quarter pole,” Detori said. “I took my horse out. I felt that I would fix the line, and in fairness, Subsanadar gave me a good fight.
“We came out at the last 20 yards away, and I could not believe it. I could not believe that I did it. ,