A second graded stakes victory at Los Alamitos for Eda and another win in the Los Alamitos Derby for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert highlighted the Los Angeles County Fair meet. The nine-day season concluded Sunday.
Owned by Baoma Corp and trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, Eda, a 4-year-old daughter of Munnings, held off 19-1 shot Chismosa by a neck under jockey Juan Hernandez in the $202,000 Great Lady M. (G2) July 4.
The victory was Eda's sixth in a row and seventh in nine starts. She earned her first graded win at Los Alamitos in the Starlet (G1) during the 2021 Winter season.
Owned by a large partnership that includes SF Racing, Starlight Racing and Madaket Stables, Reincarnate provided Baffert with his seventh consecutive win in the Derby and his eighth in the last nine years.
Hernandez was aboard Reincarnate for the gate-to-wire victory July 8, meaning the talented rider swept all three stakes offered during the LACF season for a second year in a row.
His other stakes win this year came aboard favored Kings River Knight, trained by John Sadler for Integrity Thoroughbred Racing LLC, the Ellwood Johnston Trust and Kenneth Tevelde, in the $100,500 Bertrando Stakes June 24.
Another productive LACF meet means Hernandez now has 13 stakes wins at Los Alamitos, tying him with Corey Black for most daytime Thoroughbred stakes successes. Black accumulated his baker's dozen during the Orange County Fair meets (1977-1991).
Ramon Vazquez won his fourth consecutive riding title at Los Alamitos, finishing with 11 victories, four more than apprentice Abdul Alsagoor, Abel Cedillo, and Hernandez. Vazquez swept the three daytime meets in 2022.
Baffert led the trainer standings with six victories, one more than Peter Miller. It was the 13th Baffert has either led outright or shared the crown since daytime Thoroughbred racing returned to Los Alamitos in 2014.
Daytime Thoroughbred racing will return to Los Alamitos in September.
The six-day September meet is scheduled to begin Friday, Sept. 15 and continue through Sunday, Sept. 24. Racing will be conducted Friday-Sunday (Sept. 15-17 and Sept. 22-24) both weeks. Post time will be 1 p.m. (PT)
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