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John C. Mabee StakesDEL MAR, CALIFORNIA SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 2009 JOHN C. MABEE STAKES$350,000, Grade I, 3 & up, f & m, 9 f (T) ALEX SOLIS (Magical Fantasy) – “She’s been working great. She just seems like a different horse. She’s so full of confidence. She loves it here at Del Mar. At the quarter pole I had a good position and I thought I was in good shape. I was inside, but I had so much horse I thought I could push someone out of the way if I had to. As it worked out, I got through and everything was fine. It’s going good right now. I’m riding good horses. And good horses can make you look good.” TYLER BAZE (Gotta Have Her) – “She’s a good, good filly and she ran a great race today. We just got beat by a good one. That’s all.” VICTOR ESPINOZA (Patricia’s Gem) – “We got a nice run. The pace was fine and she was running OK. She’s still learning. She’s only had a few races (this was the 4-y-o’s 7th start) and she’s only going to get better.” BRICE BLANC (Visit) – “In the end they just outran me. The winner was inside me and I just couldn’t keep up. She has been a little slow switching leads, but she at least did that today.” JOEL ROSARIO (Tuscan Evening) – “She was a little slow coming out of there. She didn’t seem to like it in among horses, either. I think she wants to be clear. At the end, she got tired.” PATRICK GALLAGHER (Magical Fantasy) -- “She looks like she’s improving a little bit at a time. She has a lot of enthusiasm and she looks really good. We’re very lucky she likes it here. A Grade I last year [Del Mar Oaks] and a Grade I this year. She beat a lot of nice fillies. She had to run to catch them. I was thinking if she could get out she’d be OK. Alex tried to get out once and it didn’t work, but then he got her outside and she came running. I was a little worried at the early fractions. Everybody was talking about a lot of speed in the race, but all the jocks rode smart races.” Going on to the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf? The win gives her an automatic bid. “That would be something nice to think about. To go and have a good time with that kind of race.” FRACTIONS: :23.96 :48.17 1:12.08 1:35.62 1:47.17 Trakus figures show that the winner reached maximum speed of 41.1 mph at the sixteenth pole. The stakes win was the third of the meet for Alex Solis and his second in the John C. Mabee. He now has 94 stakes wins during his career at Del Mar, tying him with Hall of Fame legends Eddie Delahoussaye and Bill Shoemaker on the track’s all-time list. The stakes win was the second of the meet for Paddy Gallagher and his first in the John C. Mabee. He now has eight stakes wins at Del Mar. Solis and Gallagher combined earlier in the session to win the San Clemente Handicap with the filly Starlarks |
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