Marketing Mix Storms Home in Rodeo Drive
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Marketing Mix and Garrett
Gomez won the Rodeo Drive Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths on the turf for trainer Tom
Proctor. The 4-year-old filly covered 1 1/4 miles in 1:59.20 and paid $4, $2.80
and $2.40 as the even-money favorite.
“You
never know how things are actually going to set up in a race,” said Gomez. I
know this mare; she’s really handy about what needs to be done at certain parts
of the race. She’s just pure class. She was able to listen to what I was asking
of her. I saw the two leaders hook up early on. They opened up six or seven on
us, and I was using the next two horses as my cover but they just couldn’t keep
up. I enjoy using my cover to pull me to the leader but I ended being the one
that was starting to pull the rest of them along. I don’t like to do that too
much, but you can do that when you have a quality horse, and she’s a quality
horse. She proved it today.”
Marketing Mix claimed
the automatic spot in the BC Filly & Mare Turf on Nov. 2, and Proctor was
very happy with her effort. “She makes
you high on her. She’s easy to train. She’s handled everything we’ve ever done
to her. Last year, we hauled her back and forth to Canada four times, I think.
When we discussed after the Beverly D. what to do, I told Craig (Bernick, Glen
Hill racing manager), ‘It don’t matter what you do. She makes you look good.’
I’d have been disappointed if she got beat. That’s not a good way to go into
the race, but you’ve have to be the way she’s run good all year.
Nereid was second and
Stormy Lucy third in the race previously known as the Yellow Ribbon Stakes.
Rosie Napravnik rode
Nereid for trainer John Shirreffs. “She was just a very, very nice filly to
ride,” said Napravnik. I came from a little bit of a challenging post position
on the outside and she was very easy to maneuver into a good spot. She
responded when I needed to wait and when I needed to go, and she pushed her way
through the horses and finished excellent.”
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