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$300,000 Matriarch - Grade I - 28th Running - 1 Mile (Turf)

Jockey and Trainer Quotes
Posted 11.29.09 at 5:30

Jockey Quotes

GARRETT GOMEZ, VENTURA, Winner: “When she came over the first time she ran down the hill and I told Bobby that by the end of that year I would win a Grade I on her. I think it really surprised Bobby that I came with such words. It wasn’t too much longer, June I think, that she won that Grade I. She’s just been amazing. She’s probably one of the best fillies I’ve ever ridden going a mile. Actually she is the best filly I’ve ridden going a mile. She has the most explosive turn of foot I’ve ever seen. I don’t want to see her go. I wish she could stick around another year. I actually think she’s better now than she was as a 4-year-old. In a lot of her other races she tried to pull herself up, but today when I asked her to go, she went and accelerated and ran away from them. But she’s got another career in front of her now and hopefully she’ll send some of her babies my way.”

RAFAEL BEJARANO, TUSCAN EVENING, Second: “She ran really good. She made an easy lead, I didn’t really have any pressure. I tried to take the race track, but the winner was just too much. Second best.”

ALEX SOLIS, DIAMONDRELLA, Third: “My filly, she ran a tremendous race. We did what we could but Ventura is just amazing. We chased a champion, what can I say?”

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Late Hall Of Fame Trainer Bobby Frankel’s Last Wish Comes True As Longtime Assistant Ascanio Saddles Ventura To Win Matriarch

Racing News
Posted 11.28.09 at 6:31

Juddmonte Farms' Ventura and jockey Garrett Gomez take the Grade I, $300,000 Matriarch. © Benoit Photo Juddmonte Farms' farm manager Garrett O'Rouke, right, celebrates with trainer Humberto Ascanio after Ventura's victory. © Benoit Photo Who's Up and jockey Victor Espinoza on their way to victory in the $100,000 Generous Stakes (GI). © Benoit Photo

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (Nov. 28, 2009) — Bobby Frankel’s last wish came true Saturday as odds-on favorite Ventura won the $300,000 Matriarch at Hollywood Park, completing a Grade I double for the late Hall of Fame trainer’s stable.

Frankel, who died of lymphoma on Nov. 16, asked Juddmonte Farms to delay her retirement following the Breeders’ Cup, confident she could go out a winner in The Matriarch.

With two-time Eclipse Award-winning jockey Garrett Gomez keeping Ventura within striking distance of dangerous front-runner Tuscan Evening, she easily took control in the stretch while running one mile on the Lakeside Turf Course in a stakes record 1:33.58 to win by 1 ¾ lengths.

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$750,000 CashCall Futurity Tops $2.85-Million Stakes Schedule

Racing News
Posted 08.21.09 at 11:39

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (Aug. 21, 2009) — The $750,000 CashCall Futurity, an annual stop for future Triple Crown contenders, will once again be the richest event on the stakes calendar for the 2009 Autumn Meet at Hollywood Park.

The Futurity, in the third year of sponsorship by the consumer loans company founded by prominent horse owner-breeder J. Paul Reddam, has produced six Kentucky Derby champions and the winners of 14 Triple Crown races since its inaugural running in 1981.

Pioneerof the Nile, winner of the 2008 Futurity, became the 11th graduate of the Grade I event to win the Santa Anita Derby, then finished second in the 2009 Kentucky Derby.

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