Say the notice leads D’Amato sweep in Hollywood Turf Cup at Del Mar

whereas Acclimate performed a game of trap me in case you can, his stablemate, Say the be aware, permitted the problem and ran away with the $250,000 Grade II Hollywood Turf Cup on Friday at Del Mar.

coach Philip D'Amato's two entries comprehensive 1-2 in the 1½-mile grass marathon, part of Del Mar's Turf festival right through its Bing Crosby fall meet that concludes on Sunday with the $four hundred,000 Grade I Matriarch Stakes for fillies and mares.

Acclimate, a 7-yr-old gelded son of Acclamation, set the tempo with fractions of 23.ninety eight, forty nine.00 and 1:13.sixty five and essentially pulled off a 9-1 upset earlier than Say the be aware, ultimate on the appropriate of the stretch within the seven-horse box, came charging domestic within the middle of the music below Kent Desormeaux to win by means of a length in the closing time of 2:27.sixty two.

Say the word, a 6-yr-historic greater than capable gelding who went postward because the 5-1 third option within the wagering, gained for the seventh time in 33 begins to pad his profession bankroll to $822,792 with the winner's determine of $150,000. All however six of his races have come over the turf.

trainer Chad Brown, who has nine Turf festival victories lifetime and entered eight for this holiday weekend's seven stakes races, couldn't add to his magnificent complete Friday as his four-5 favorite, Rockemperor, complete fifth under Flavien Prat.

"This horse has had so lots crisis before this," D'Amato talked about of the winner. "It turned into awesome to see him win. Kent did like he referred to he would and kept him lined up, then obtained him clear within the stretch and let him stretch his legs."

It changed into an marvelous day for the forty five-year-ancient D'Amato, who additionally received the opener on the 9-race card with crimson Storm Risen and the nightcap with Badger Kitten to take over the combat for main coach of the meet with 11 victories, three greater than Bob Baffert.

The Hollywood Turf Cup victory became a primary for D'Amato and his 2d stakes victory of the meet. He's gained 34 stakes races universal at Del Mar.

For Desormeaux, who has loved a productive summer season and fall at Del Mar, it become also his second stakes victory of the meet and first in the Turf Cup. He's received 86 stakes races on the seaside track, the ninth-most all-time.

"I've received to provide Phil the credit score for this one," he referred to. "He instructed me it changed into difficult to get this horse to settle, so I told him I'd do the eu issue: I'd put him up some horse's rear (forcing him to reside in position) and wait unless the end."

That horse turned into Friar's street, who complete third, a neck at the back of Acclimate, with Umberto Rispoli aboard.

"My friends all the time question me who's my superstar, and what that capacity is I'll put a celeb by means of the horse that I believe will elevate me 70 yards from the wire," Desormeaux mentioned. "And Umby (Rispoli) had the megastar today."

STAKES TRIO

The Turf festival continues Saturday with three graded stakes – the $four hundred,000 Grade I Hollywood Derby for three-yr-olds, the $250,000 Grade II Seabiscuit Handicap and the $a hundred,000 Grade III Jimmy Durante Stakes for two-yr-historic fillies. the first put up is 12:30 p.m.