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Preacher Roe scores $30.20 upset at Del Mar

Preacher Roe, a 5-year-old gelding who prepared for Del Mar’s summer racing season by working out at the San Luis Rey Trainer Center in Bonsall, scored a $30.20 upset at the seaside racetrack on Aug. 5.

Preacher Roe hails from the barn of Adam Kitchingman and was one of seven horses trained by San Luis Rey-based conditioners to collect a victory at Del Mar during the racing week of Aug. 3-7.

The others were: Quorum of Joy (trained by Edward Freeman), Holey Mosey (Molly J. Pearson), Triple Clown (Peter Miller), Red Apple (Juan Lopez), Straight Fire (Keith Desormeaux), and Pearl de Vere (Miller).

Preacher Roe, a 14-1 shot ridden by Martin Pedroza, edged fellow long shot Glory Bound (11-1) by a nose in a one-mile allowance/optional claiming race on the turf that had a purse of $65,000. Preacher Roe added $39,000 to his collection plate with the victory – his sixth in 19 career starts – and was timed in 1:35.88 on a firm course.

Quorum of Joy crossed the wire second (1 1/4 lengths behind Captain Akers) in the third race on Aug. 4 but was awarded the victory in the six-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds when Captain Akers was disqualified from first and placed sixth for causing interference at the top of the stretch.

Quorum of Joy, with jockey Mario Gutierrez aboard, was the 9-2 third choice in the $16,000-$14,000 claiming race and paid $11.80. The time of the race was 1:10.06.

The 2-year-old filly Holey Mosey, who was purchased as a yearling for $10,000, earned $21,000 when she broke her maiden in the fourth race on Aug. 4. Making her fourth career start, Holey Mosey won the six-furlong, $62,500 maiden-claiming event by a half-length under jockey Gary Stevens in 1:11.05 and paid $5.40 as the 8-5 favorite.

Triple Clown, with Pedroza up, battled on the lead from start to finish to prevail in a three-horse photo finish in the eighth race on Aug. 4. Beaten double-digits in maiden allowance races in his first three starts, Triple Clown won the five-furlong, $20,000 maiden-claiming race by a head in 57.39 seconds and paid $9.20.

The 2-year-old filly Red Apple, who missed by a neck at odds of 16-1 when she made her career debut in a five-furlong, $32,000-$28,000 maiden- claiming race on July 21 at Del Mar, posted a decisive 3 1/4-length victory as the 5-2 second choice in a similar race at 5 1/2 furlongs on Aug. 5. Owned and trained by Lopez, Red Apple paid $7.60 after scoring in 1:04.86 with veteran jockey Agapito Delgadillo in the irons.

Straight Fire, who had the misfortune of running into Chasing Aces (who set a track record in breaking his maiden) in his first start on July 17, followed up his second-place finish that day by scoring a very impressive 10 1/2-length victory in a 6 1/2-furlong maiden allowance race on Aug. 6. Ridden by Kent Desormeaux (Keith’s brother) for an ownership group headed by national sports talk radio host Jim Rome, Straight Fire stopped the timer in 1:14.94 and returned $3.80 as a heavy 4-5 favorite.

The 6-year-old mare Pearl de Vere, who recorded a bullet workout for five furlongs (best of the day at the distance) at San Luis Rey on July 27, came from just off the pace to win a five-furlong turf dash on Aug. 7 by three-quarters of a length under Kent Desormeaux. Pearl de Vere was timed in 56.62 seconds and paid $9.00 as third wagering choice in a field of five.

 

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