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Torrey Pines Stakes

DEL MAR, CALIFORNIA                                                                                         SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

TORREY PINES STAKES

$100,000, 3-y-o f, 1 m

JOEL ROSARIO (Third Dawn) – “Just like we wanted. The race came up perfect. At the quarter pole when it was time for her to go, she was gone. She’s a nice little filly and now she’s a stakes winner.”

ALEX SOLIS (Music Magic) – “I’m proud of her. She ran real hard today.”

GARRETT GOMEZ (Jehan) – “I had the right trip and she tried. She just wasn’t good enough today.”

JOHN SADLER (Third Dawn) -- In response to question about her wide trip: “Well, riding a 4-5 horse, Joel [Rosario] thought he’d be better going wide and not having any trouble. She finished professionally, so that worked out. I’ll give her a little time now and bring her back for the 4-year-old filly series at Santa Anita [starting with the La Brea Stakes].”

FRACTIONS:  :23.28  :47.93  1:12.52  1:24.93  1:37.60

The stakes win was the fourth of the meet for Joel Rosario and his first in the Torrey Pines. He now has five stakes wins all told at Del Mar.

The stakes wins was the second of the meet for John Sadler and his fourth – including the last three in a row – in the Torrey Pines. He now has 32 stakes victories at Del Mar.

Rosario and Sadler are the leading rider and trainer, respectively, at Del Mar for the current meet. Today is the 35th day of the session and the Torrey Pines triumph was Rosario’s 46th so far and Sadler’s 25th. In 2008, Rosario was second-leading rider (to Rafael Bejarano) with 36 victories, while Sadler was leading trainer with 31 firsts.

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