Dynamic Sky Needs Better Luck in San Marcos
Corey Nakatani is hoping for better luck on Dynamic Sky when he runs in Saturday’s Grade II San Marcos Stakes for older horses at 1 ¼ miles on turf.
The son of Sky Mesa owned by John Oxley and trained by Mark Casse was beaten only two lengths while finishing sixth in the Grade II San Gabriel Stakes Jan. 3, “lacking room behind rivals in midstretch.”
How tight was the finish? The eight starters were separated by only five lengths.
“I was coming between horses and got cut off,” Nakatani said of the San
Gabriel. “I didn’t really let him get a chance to run at the point when
he needed to. He’s a real big horse. I’m looking forward to getting
another opportunity.”
The field for the San Marcos: Finnegans
Wake, Victor Espinoza, 5-2; Patrioticandproud, Drayden Van Dyke, 4-1;
Majestic Harbor, Mike Smith, 8-1; Power Ped, Flavien Prat, 9-2; Little
Jerry, Edwin Maldonado, 12-1; Diamond Bachelor, Martin Pedroza, 20-1;
Quadrivium, Forest Boyce, 8-1; Dynamic Sky, Corey Nakatani, 3-1; and Power Foot, Kieren Fallon, 8-1.
FINISH LINES: Two-time Eclipse Award winner Beholder
“had a good open gallop today” and is about a week away from her first
official workout following her scratch due to fever from the Breeders’
Cup Distaff last Oct. 31, trainer Richard Mandella said . . . Delta Jackpot winner Ocho Ocho Ocho worked four furlongs for trainer Jim Cassidy on a gorgeous Thursday morning in 49.80 for the San Felipe Stakes on March 7 . . . With three wins from his last four mounts including two on Sunday, Edwin Maldonado is back on the beam, and hopes to continue when he rides speedy Little Jerry in Saturday’s San Marcos Stakes. “I was happier than a dog with two tales,” Maldonado said after Sunday’s double. Trainer Richard Baltas
on Little Jerry, who will be seeking the first stakes win of his
25-race career: “We’ll try them and see how it goes. He seems like he
wants to run now. Before, he wouldn’t run unless he was on the lead.
Last time he didn’t run bad. We’re taking a shot because we don’t have
anywhere else to run.” Baltas added that Bing Crosby winner Big Macher
came out of his disappointing showing in the Palos Verdes “perfect” and
could re-surface in the $100,000 Sensational Star Stakes at about 6 ½
furlongs on turf Feb. 21. “There’s a chance he could go there,” Baltas said. “I wanted to try him on the grass because he’s out of a Kris S mare.”. . . Andy Harrington, clocker for NationalTurf.com, will be Tom Quigley’s guest handicapper Saturday in the East Paddock Gardens at 11:20 a.m. . . . Samantha Sachs, 8-year-old granddaughter of Tom Knust, agent for Elvis Trujillo, plays the lead role of Cossette in Les Miserables at the IFGF Los Angeles venue at 147 West Palm Ave. in Monrovia from March 27 through April 1.
Source: Santa Anita Park