DRAYDEN VAN DYKE (Family Meeting, winner) – “She’s a little green; she hasn’t quite figured it all out yet. She was idling on me. But I could feel I had a ton of horse under me, so I just wanted to keep her calm. When it came time she went. She’s a good one. Can’t wait to see what she does next.”

COREY NAKATANI (Mokat, second) – “It was good for me – good trip, good try. She just broke her maiden and here she is in with the stakes horses. This course has some cut to it and she ran dynamite on it today.”

VICTOR ESPINOZA (Sutton’s Smile, third) – “No problems with my horse. She ran good. She’s the kind that will improve as she gets older too. The future is bright.”

AIMEE DOLLASE, assistant to Tom Proctor (Family Meeting, winner) – “She’s a nice filly. It’s hard to step up to a stakes coming off a maiden win but she showed some class today. She comes from off the pace, so the way the race unfolded was good for her.”

 

 

FRACTIONS:  :23.21  :48.03  1:13.10  1:25.40  1:37.14

 

 

This is the second time the Jimmy Durante has been run at Del Mar. It was formerly called the Miesque Stakes and had 23 previous runnings at Hollywood Park.

 

This is the first stakes win of the meeting for rider Van Dyke. It was his third stakes winner at Del Mar and first graded stakes victory.

 

This is the first stakes win of the meeting for trainer Proctor. It was his 12th stakes win at Del Mar.

 

The winner is owned – and was bred – by Glen Hill Farm, the nom de course for 96-year-old Leonard Lavin of Glencoe, IL, and Ocala, FL.