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38 The Game, January 2005 Your Thoroughbred Racing Community Newspaper
HASTINGS RECAP CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 The largest $2 exactor payoff was $1365.00 on
September 12. The largest $2 triactor payoff was $18,229.10 on October 2. The largest $2 superfec- ta was $42,946.00 on June 13.
For the third year in a row, jockey Pedro Alvarado took the leading rider title from gate to wire for the 2004 season, with 130 wins, 85 places and 87 shows from 533 mounts for total earnings of $2,158,973. Second place jockey Dave Wilson who after a slow start came on late to win 79 races, 87 places, and 76 shows from 562 mounts for total earnings of $1,504,462. Third place went to
veteran Chris Loseth who won 51 races, 49 places and 47 shows from 405 mounts for total earnings of $927,101.
Frank Fuentes earned the most stakes wins in the 2004 season with 10. Alvarado finished a close second with 9 stakes victories.
The undefeated Regal Red was the highlight of the year winning all five of her starts, earning $138,111, and all 5 of her wins were stakes races. She was the most dominating horse on the grounds before she suffered a year ending injury. Notis Otis was another horse who had a great year and will push Regal Red for the coveted ‘Horse of the
inched out of a perfect season in his last race of the year; he earned $160,477.
Trainer Dino Condilenios won the training title for the second consecutive year in a very tight race that wasn’t decided until the last day of the meet. But Condilenios held off the fast closing Hall of Famer Harold Barroby. Condilenios won 37 races, 26 seconds and 22 thirds from 194 starts. Barroby won 36 races, 45 seconds and 38 thirds from 273 starts. Third place went to Barbara Heads who won 34 races, 33 seconds and 22 thirds from 218 starts.
The leading owner for the meet was Diglett Stable winning 19 of 67 starts for $263,219. The leading owner in terms of earnings was KK Sangara netting $278,360.
The 2004 Thoroughbred Awards and Hall of Fame ceremonies are tentatively booked on March 26, 2005 at the Westin Bayshore.
Hastings Entertainment Inc. operates Hastings Racecourse, a landmark thoroughbred racetrack located in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Great Canadian Gaming Corporation is the owner of Hastings Entertainment Inc. GCGC has more than 3,000 employees and is a multi-jurisdic- tional gaming operator with six operating casinos, a thoroughbred racecourse, several licensed restau- rants, a marina operation and a community gaming centre (bingo and slots) in British Columbia, through Great American Gaming Corporation, four gaming and restaurant/entertainment facilities in Washington State.
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However, foreign riders were penalized either by having to carry more weight or by being limited to riding only a few races per day. Yet Winkfield put up amazing numbers. In Warsaw in 1904, for instance, he won with 54 of 105 mounts and was unplaced only 14 times!
Ed Hotaling, the author, is an Emmy Award-win- ning reporter for a Washington, DC, TV station and previously wrote "The Great Black Jockeys." He has done an amazing job of research for this book, track- ing down racing records all over Europe and digging out interviews of the glib Winkfield from the files of newspapers and racing magazines. He also weaves into the racing narrative major historical events of the times, such as the first Zeppelin flying over a race course on a day Winkfield won a major stakes, as well as the events leading to the two World Wars.
A talented and personable horseman, Winkfield's personal life was not altogether exemplary. Although he divorced his first wife, he continued to support her and their children. He later had a son with a Russian woman and still later married and had a child with a Russian baron's daughter His son, Robert, had a few steeplechase mounts in the l940s in the U. S. before returning to France with his father and also becoming a trainer.
Winkfield joined Isaac Murphy in the American Racing Hall of Fame last August. Anyone who loves racing and/or history will enjoy this book tremendously.
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