Owners-Trainers-Jockeys 2019 Source Book Owner-Trainer-Jockey 2019 Biographies Stakes-Winning Jockeys & Trainers 1937-2018 Del Mar Stakes Schedule – 80th Summer Season – 2019 Date Event Conditions Distance Purse BIOGRAPHICAL Wed. Jul 17 RUNHAPPY OCEANSIDE STAKES Three-year-olds, N/W S/S of $50,000 at 1 M o/o 1 Mile (Turf) $100,000 A in 2019 SKETCHES 2019 Thu. Jul 18 FLEET TREAT STAKES Fillies, Three-year-olds, Cal-Bred 7 Furlongs $150,000 G Fri. Jul 19 Osunitas Stakes Fillies & Mares, Three-year-olds & up, N/W S/S 1 1/16 Miles (Turf) $85,000 A $50,000 at 1 M o/o since September 1 Sat. Jul 20 SAN DIEGO HANDICAP (Gr. II) Three-year-olds & up 1 1/16 Miles $200,000 G Sat. Jul 20 SAN CLEMENTE STAKES (Gr. II) Fillies, Three-year-olds 1 Mile (Turf) $200,000 G Sat. Jul 20 Daisycutter Handicap Fillies & Mares, Three-year-olds & up 5 Furlongs (Turf) $85,000 A Sun. Jul 21 EDDIE READ STAKES (Gr. II) Three-year-olds & up 1 1/8 Miles (Turf) $250,000 G Sun. Jul 21 Wickerr Stakes Three-year-olds & up, N/W S/S $50,000 at 1 M 1 Mile (Turf) $85,000 A o/o since September 1 Wed. Jul 24 COUGAR II HANDICAP (Gr. III) Three-year-olds & up 1 1/2 Miles $100,000 G Fri. Jul 26 CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' STAKES Three-year-olds & up, Cal-Bred 1 1/16 Miles (Turf) $150,000 G Sat. Jul 27 REAL GOOD DEAL STAKES Three-year-olds, Cal-Bred 7 Furlongs $150,000 G Sat. Jul 27 BING CROSBY STAKES (Gr. I) Three-year-olds & up 6 Furlongs $300,000 G Sun. Jul 28 CLEMENT L. HIRSCH STAKES (Gr. I) Fillies & Mares, Three-year-olds & up 1 1/16 Miles $300,000 G Wed. Jul 31 CTBA STAKES Fillies, Two-year-olds, Cal-Bred 5 1/2 Furlongs $100,000 G Fri. Aug 02 GRADUATION STAKES Two-year-olds, Cal-Bred 5 1/2 Furlongs $100,000 G Sat. Aug 03 YELLOW RIBBON HANDICAP (Gr. II) Fillies & Mares, Three-year-olds & up 1 1/16 Miles (Turf) $200,000 G Sat. Aug 03 SORRENTO STAKES (GR. II) Fillies, Two-year-olds 6 Furlongs $200,000 G Sun. Aug 04 LA JOLLA HANDICAP (Gr. III) Three-year-olds 1 1/16 Miles (Turf) $150,000 G Fri. Aug 09 SOLANA BEACH STAKES Fillies & Mares, Three-year-olds & up, Cal- 1 Mile (Turf) $150,000 G Bred Sat. Aug 10 BEST PAL STAKES (Gr. II) Two-year-olds 6 Furlongs $200,000 G Sun. Aug 11 RANCHO BERNARDO HANDICAP (Gr. III) Fillies & Mares, Three-year-olds & up 6 1/2 Furlongs $100,000 G Fri. Aug 16 CTT & TOC Stakes Fillies & Mares, Three-year-olds & up 1 3/8 Miles (Turf) $85,000 A Sat. Aug 17 TVG PACIFIC CLASSIC (Gr. I) Three-year-olds & up 1 1/4 Miles $1,000,000 G Jockey Kent Desormeaux, trainer Jim Cassidy and Deron Pearson, who flies his silks Sat. Aug 17 GREEN FLASH HANDICAP (Gr. III) Three-year-olds & up 5 Furlongs (Turf) $100,000 G under the name D P Racing, have a moment together in the Del Mar paddock during Sat. Aug 17 DEL MAR HANDICAP (Gr. II) Three-year-olds & up 1 3/8 Miles (Turf) $250,000 G the 2018 summer meet. Sat. Aug 17 DEL MAR OAKS (Gr. I) Fillies, Three-year-olds 1 1/8 Miles (Turf) $300,000 G Sat. Aug 17 TORREY PINES STAKES (Gr. III) Fillies, Three-year-olds 1 Mile $100,000 G Sun. Aug 18 DEL MAR MILE (Gr. II) Three-year-olds & up 1 Mile (Turf) $200,000 G Wed. Aug 21 Harry F. Brubaker Stakes Three-year-olds & up 1 Mile $85,000 A Fri. Aug 23 Tranquility Lake Stakes Fillies & Mares, Three-year-olds & up, N/W S/S 1 Mile $85,000 A Owners . 2 $50,000 at 1 M o/o since February 1 Sat. Aug 24 PAT O'BRIEN STAKES (Gr. II) Three-year-olds & up 7 Furlongs $200,000 G Sun. Aug 25 SHARED BELIEF STAKES Three-year-olds 1 Mile $100,000 G Wed. Aug 28 GENEROUS PORTION STAKES Fillies, Two-year-olds, Cal-Bred 6 Furlongs $100,000 G Fri. Aug 30 I'M SMOKIN STAKES Two-year-olds, Cal-Bred 6 Furlongs $100,000 G Trainers . 19 Sat. Aug 31 DEL MAR DEBUTANTE (Gr. I) Fillies, Two-year-olds 7 Furlongs $300,000 G Sat. Aug 31 JOHN C. MABEE STAKES (Gr. II) Fillies & Mares, Three-year-olds & up 1 1/8 Miles (Turf) $200,000 G Sun. Sep 01 DEL MAR DERBY (Gr. II) Three-year-olds 1 1/8 Miles (Turf) $250,000 G Sun. Sep 01 DEL MAR JUVENILE TURF Two-year-olds 1 Mile (Turf) $100,000 G Mon. Sep 02 DEL MAR JUVENILE FILLIES TURF Fillies, Two-year-olds 1 Mile (Turf) $100,000 G . 41 Mon. Sep 02 RUNHAPPY DEL MAR FUTURITY (Gr. I) Two-year-olds 7 Furlongs $300,000 G Jockeys u Del Mar thanks Equibase and Daily Racing Form for their statistical aid in compiling this publication. On the cover: (Top) Jockey Joe Talamo calls for aid from on high prior to a race and draws smiles from owner Nick Alexander and trainer Phil D’Amato Note: CAPS indicate advertised stakes; others are overnight stakes. Advertised Stakes $6,800,000 during the summer session of 2018. (Bottom) Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer and leading rider Drayden Van Dyke do some pre-race homework Indicates Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” series race. Overnight Stakes $ 510,000 in the paddock on a summer afternoon in 2018 at Del Mar. A: Added Money • G: Guaranteed Money Total $7,310,000 Cover and Owner/Trainer/Jockey Photos by Benoit & Associates Owner Profiles • Del Mar 2019 Owner Profiles • Del Mar 2019 topping $4.2 million. Burt Bacharach • Their top money winner was turf ace Oscar Performance, a multiple Del Mar Thoroughbred Club graded stakes star who captured the 2016 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Born: May 12, 1928 Turf at Santa Anita, one of his seven graded stakes wins. Retired Kansas City, Missouri Owner Profiles — 2019 after the 2018 season with $2,457,632 in earnings and now stands at Resides: Santa Monica, California Mill Ridge Farm in Kentucky. • Amermans have raced 16 different graded stakes winners. Silks: Light blue, royal blue musical • John is retired; formerly was chief executive officer of Mattel Toys. notes in circle on back, royal • Member of the California Horse Racing Board from 2006 to 2008. blue cap of brain cancer in 2015 and his chief assistant, Phil D’Amato, took • Elected as a member of The Jockey Club in 2011. Nick Alexander over the stable. Alexander stuck with him, as well as sending some • Amermans have been generous to good causes in racing, notably the • Famed entertainer-composer -- an annual visitor to Del Mar -- has Born: September 13, 1942 horses to another former Mitchell assistant, Steve Miyadi. California Equine Retirement Foundation (CERF). He serves on the had his most success in racing with Heartlight No. One, Soul of the Santa Monica, California • Alexander now has gone from a “claiming” owner to a breeder/owner board of directors of Tranquility Farm and previously was on the Matter and Afternoon Deelites. Resides: Santa Ynez and Del Mar, who produces 100% of his stable on his ranch. “Raising your own, board of the Winner’s Foundation. • Heartlight No. One, named for the Bacharach song performed by California then racing them. That’s the best,” he says. • Operate Peacefield Farm in Temecula, CA, a rehabilitation facility Neil Diamond and inspired by the film “E.T.,” won an Eclipse • The key to that transition for him was his first “big” horse, the gray for injured horses, with daughter, Anne, serving as manager. Award as 1983’s top 3-year-old filly. Soul of the Matter was fifth in Silks: White, blue yoke, orange and • 2018 racing record: 66 starts, 9 wins for earnings of $991,312. the 1994 Kentucky Derby and retired with $1.4 million in earnings. speedster Grazen, whom he bred, raced and now stands. The stakes white “MM” on front, white bars • Family: One daughter, one son Afternoon Deelites was eighth in the 1995 Kentucky Derby and lives on blue sleeves, white and blue winning son of the late California sire Benchmark does stallion at Kentucky’s Old Friends retirement facility. cap duties at nearby Tommy Town Thoroughbreds in Santa Ynez (he • Bought first horse, Battle Royal, for $14,500 in 1968 and the horse • Though the low-key Alexander demurs, it has been suggested he covered approximately 65 mares this year), then returns to Horse Madeline Auerbach won in his first start for the owner. could wear the title “Mr. California Racing.” A quick check gives Haven after the season to be the ranch’s chief pet. Alexander keeps Born: October 4, 1944 • His first trainer was the legendary Charlie Whittingham. him in a covered paddock alongside his house and can check on him reasons why: has owned horses in the Golden State for more than Yorkshire, England • First stakes winner: Advance Guard, who won the 1971 San Diego 40 years; Los Angeles native chose to buy a farm in Santa Ynez and from his living room window. Handicap at Del Mar. Other stakes winners: Crumbs, who won Del now lives on site as he breeds, raises and races his own stock from • Among Alexander’s top runners – all homebred stakes winners – have Resides: Bell Canyon, California Mar’s 1975 El Cajon Stakes, Video Kid and No No.