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RACING NEWS
El Primero Del Ano Derby-G3
FAVORITE COLOSSUS
by Tracy Gantz
Cesar De Alba won plenty of big races as a jockey, but he scored his first graded victory as a trainer when Favorite Colossus
captured the $225,200 El Primero Del Ano Derby-G3 at Los Alamitos March 28. The colt’s owners/breeders Michelle and Jeff Cravens, and jockey Irving Lara were also win- ning their initial graded races.
“It’s amazing because I’ve only been doing this for two years,” said De Alba. “It took me five, six, or seven years—I can’t remember how long—to win one of these as a jockey. Thanks to Jeff, he gave me an opportunity and now we won a stakes race with him.”
Favorite Colossus qualified the seventh fast- est in the March 7 trials and had only won one of six races prior to the 400-yard El Primero Del Ano Derby final. Drawn on the outside, he went off as the 11-1 fourth choice.
When the gate opened, Constituent, the 3-5 favorite and the fastest qualifier, bounded out to the front. Favorite Colossus raced in fifth,
Los Alamitos
$225,200 • 400 yards :19.858 • si 90
FAVORITE CARTEL
si 104
Bred by: Paul Jones/Thompson Racing Inc.
Raced to 4 • $607,669 25-9(3)-2-4(2)
1,107 f., 73 SW • $23,853,144
FAVORITE TRICK TB
Bred by: Mr. & Mrs. M. L. Wood Raced to 3 • $1,726,793 16-12(11)-0-1(1)
635 f., 26 SW • $22,158,485
Bred by: Jeff & Michelle Cravens
Raced to 3 $119,609 7-2(1)-0-0
SHENOSHERCORONA si 91 Bred by: Henry E. Brown Raced to 4 • $16,318 15-1-3-2
28 f., 3 SW • $1,133,919
WARM IT UP
si 93
Bred by: Edward Allred Raced to 4 • $30,590 9-3(1)-0-2(1)
5 f., 1 SW • $155,960
WALK THRU FIRE si 92
Bred by: Allred Bros/Vessels Stallion Farm
Raced to 4 • $94,280 21-2-2-2
1,296 f., 88 SW • $39,512,790
WAYMAKER MISS si 93 Bred by: Edward Allred Raced to 3 • $17,643 10-4-0-1
13 f., 2 SW • $212,813
162 SPEEDHORSE April 2021
Favorite Colossus and jockey Irving Lara win the $225,200 El Primero Del Ano Derby-G3
Los Alamitos
FAVORITE COLOSSUS, ‘18-c.