The San Diego Handicap

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Named after America's finest city.

Will Accelerate get revenge!

He is the high weight in this $200.000 Grade 2 Handicap


Here are the entries

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Entries

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Baffert

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4 5 7

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8 9 10

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I'm off to Del Mar. Gonna try to be there today for some live racing.

I will check back in. For now here are my readouts

Have fun and a great time at Saratoga and all the tracks

See you from Del Mar

[rdiam]

Scratch the 5 -- Curlin Rules and the 7 -- Accelerate in the San Diego Handicap, race 7 DMR

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Originally Posted by rdiam

Scratch the 5 -- Curlin Rules and the 7 -- Accelerate in the San Diego Handicap, race 7 DMR

Thanks, Richard

Hello from Carlsbad
I made it at my first venture back to Del Mar for live racing
It was an incredible day. I have to admit I had serious doubts I would ever see the place for live racing. I have not been back to the main building since the breeder's cup.

The crowd was amazing. It was a perfect day not too hot and warm enough for the ladies to wear their short skirts and shorts

I'm sorry the San Diego was a dud

All the scratches left the 1 who was bet down to 6/5 go out and grab the lead and then go wire to wire

Arrogates Del Mar trouble strikes again

On a side note, I made a small $6.00 profit on my "place to be bets "

I bet $130 and won $136 betting Mth, Saratoga and Del Mar
No rebates though, My internet card was expired and they had no free wifi
in the main grandstand, So I had to bet cash with vouchers

Okay I am so happy I went today to "where the surf meets the turf"
In Del Mar

The San Diego Chart

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Catalina Cruiser and Accelerate have the same ownership and trainer and they didn't want them running together so they scratched Accelerate.....why did they enter the horse to begin with when they knew that they weren't going to run him...strange

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Quote from DRF:

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DEL MAR, Calif. – Before the San Diego Handicap on Saturday at Del Mar, trainer John Sadler called Catalina Cruiser “the best horse nobody knows about.” 


link to blood horse article:
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-rac...-diego-victory

Blood Horse article:

Sometimes things just work out.

When an allowance race didn't fill for Hronis Racing's undefeated but inexperienced Catalina Cruiser, trainer John Sadler entered three in the $200,000 San Diego Handicap (G2), with the headliner—or so it seemed, at the time—multiple grade 1 winner Accelerate.

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But he didn't want to run Accelerate against his younger but still unproven stablemate, so the headliner, along with third-stringer Curlin Rules, were scratched.

The only horse carrying the green and white Hronis silks July 21 at Del Mar was Catalina Cruiser, the strapping chestnut son of Union Rags , and he carried them well.

He took command early in the 1 1/16-mile test scratched down to a field of five, dictated the pace through the final turn under jockey Drayden Van Dyke, and surged home in the stretch to win by 6 3/4 lengths over grade 2 winner Dr. Dorr.

"This horse's nickname was 'the best horse nobody knows about,'" Sadler said. "And then today we changed it to 'the next big thing.' We've loved this horse from day one. He's shown us a lot—a lot—of potential. We've had to be patient with him, but today he showed us what we thought he could do."