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however, and missed the final while the Parsons and Jones rested him for four months. Kobe returned to win a Nov. 4 allowance race and the Jan. 1 Holiday Handicap, both at Los Alamitos.
Deniro (Desirio-Priscilla Ione) spent
his 2-year-old season racing in the Pacific Northwest, where he won two races and finished second in the Firecracker Futurity. Adrian Loza piloted him in his Winter Derby trial and the final for owner Shane O’Leary and trainer Ugo De La Torre.
Dr. Ed Allred’s homebred Check My Thoughts (Check Him Out-Just Think) fin- ished third in the Derby, a neck behind Deniro,
with Eulices Gomez in the irons. Winner of last year’s California Breeders Freshman Stakes, the gelding ran second to Kobe in the Holiday and second to Deniro in his Derby trial.
Racing fourth through sixth were Flame
N Flash (Walk Thru Fire-Oh La Proud),
BF Farm Girl (First Down Dash-Shirleys Strawfly), and One Ramblin Lady (Tac It
Like A Man-Ramblin Strawfly). Eye For FDD (First Down Dash-Eye For Corona) and Long Gone (TR Dasher-Departing) finished in a dead heat for seventh, followed by Testing The Ice (Stoli-Streakin La Tac) and Flyin Rose
(Fly With Honor-The Rose Princess).
“I didn’t want to let go!” said an overjoyed Mary Parsons, hugging jockey Cody Jensen.
Kobe—From 2009 Future Stakes Winner to 2012 winner of the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Winter Derby.
Kobe (inside) stuck his nose in front of the grey Deniro to win the Los Alamitos Winter Derby-G1.
Cody Jensen picked up the mount on Kobe when regular rider Ramon Sanchez stayed with BF Farm Girl.
Jockey Cody Jensen also rode Kobe’s dam, Rubiate.
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