Page 197 - July 2022

Down With Debt Handicap
DAYTONA 1000
Dby Tracy Gantz
aytona 1000 made it three in a row when she
won her first stakes in the $17,500 Down With Debt Handicap at Los Alamitos on June 25. If not for a slow start in an allowance race to finish third, Daytona 1000 might have a five-race winning streak going.
Breaking on top from the 6-post under jockey Oscar Peinado as the 7-10 favorite, Daytona 1000 wasn’t at all slow out of the gate for the 330-yard Down With Debt. She sped right to the front
and pulled away for an easy wire-to-wire 2-length victory in :16.690, while posting a 97 speed index.
Jaime Gomez trains Daytona 1000 for owner Daniel Reynoso. The filly last year won in her initial outing and now has a lifetime record of five wins in 10 starts with one second and two thirds.
Balgo Racing Team bred Daytona 1000 in California out of winner A Reason To Run, who has produced six winners from seven starters, including graded stakes winner Feature Malinche and stakes-placed The Cartel Runner. The second dam is stakes winner Mongoose Effort, the dam of Champion Mongoose Jet Eye.
Dr. Ed Allred’s homebred Lovely Evening (Seperate Interest-Moonlight Corona) ran second under jockey Jesus Ayala for trainer Scott Willoughby. In 2021, Lovely Evening won the Autumn Handicap and ran third in the Holiday Handicap at Los Alamitos.
Bruce and Jill Thompson’s homebred Run By Your Cartel (Corona Cartel-Run By You) finished third. Adrian Loza rode the filly for trainer Juan Aleman. Run By Your Cartel has won two races.
Completing the field were World Famous Mia (One Famous Eagle-Send The Candy Wagon), Rumorsa (Kiddy Up-Walk Thru Michele), Being Difficult (Foose-Hard Lining), and Hitters Count (Kiddy Up-What A Hit).
Mail Tribune Handicap
WARHOCK
Aby John Moorehouse
fter finishing ninth in last year’s running of the
Mail Tribune Handicap, Warhock came back with a vengeance in the 2022 version, winning the $16,600 event by a head on June 27 at Grants Pass.
Bolstered by back-to-back wins to end his 2021 season, Warhock went off at just under 3-2 odds in his 2022 debut, making him the post-time favorite. The gelding met that expectation, breaking on top from the No. 7 gate, yielding the lead to CM Boom Shakalaka and then moving back in front by a head going into the stretch. Warhock held on to win by that same margin, covering the 350 yards in :17.326 and posting a 101 speed index.
Benito Curiel trains Warhock and Jaime Lopez was aboard the gelding, who brought home an $8,300 payday that improved his total earnings to $70,579.
Malon Cowgill owns Warhock, a seven-year-old gelding who recorded his ninth victory in 29 total outs. He’s now won three consecutive starts, a streak dating back to last September. Warhock already was stakes-placed, but this marked his first victory in stakes company.
The gelding was bred by the Hayden Brothers Ranch out of Copa Show Girl, a 2000 mare who finished second in the 2003 running of the Retama Park Derby-G1.
CM Boom Shakalaka (Carters Cartel-Mi Fames A Dandy) was second for owner Chris Sutton, trainer Nick Lowe, and jockey Jose Nicasio. Jess Candy
Lips (Jess Lips-Candies Coconut) hit the board in third for Baldemar Rodriguez. The Rosa Rodriguez trainee had Jose Guerrero in the irons.
The remaining order of finish was Arizona Favorite (Favorite Cartel-Check Her For Cash), Tell Foose (Foose-Chicks Tell), Messanger (Favorite Cartel-Cupids Special Fly), Shesa Dashair (Dashair-Shesaspeedin Bullet) and No Juans Fool (Fastnfierce-Juan Full Corona).
RACING NEWS
Shopatour
SPEEDHORSE
ApparelStore
Visit speedhorse.com for a full line of SPEEDHORSE apparel.
TeeShirts Hoodies Jackets Vests LaundryTotes HatHangers ToteBags Hats&Caps
Los Alamitos • $17,500
330 yards • :16.690 • si 97
Holland Ease
Corona Chick My Eye Opener
Corona Cartel
DAYTONA 1000, ‘19-f.
A Reason To Run
Mongoose Effort
Grants Pass • $16,600
350 yards • :17.326 • si 101
Shazoom
Zoomin For Bux
WARHOCK, ‘15-g.
Copa Show Girl
Oh No Its Uh Oh Corona Cartel
Steel Magnolias
SPEEDHORSE July 2022 195
Los Alamitos
Dingus Photography