Reveron Racing Inc.'s Armando R steadily advanced around the far turn, swung wide into the stretch, and powered through the lane to a 1 ½-length victory Sunday at Laurel Park in Laurel, Md., to give trainer Agustin Bezara a win with his final starter.
Jevian Toledo was aboard Armando R ($9.20) in the two-turn claimer for 3-year-olds and up. The winning time for about 1 1/16 miles was 1:46.06 over a fast main track.
“Believe me, it's great,” Bezara said following the race. “It's a feeling with no words.”
A gelded 5-year-old son of Grade 1 winner Blame, Armando R is 3-for-6 this year and represents all of Bezara's 2021 wins from 35 total starters at Laurel and historic Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md. Bezara said he will be relocating to Fairfax, Va.
“We are going to start some new enterprises with less stress,” Bezara said.
A champion trainer in his native Venezuela before coming to the U.S. in 2009, Bezara had 99 wins from 921 career starters with purse earnings of more than $2.6 million. He is perhaps best known for training 2012 Gulfstream Park Derby winner Reveron, who would go on to be second by a length at odds of 31-1 in the Grade 1 Florida Derby but missed the G1 Kentucky Derby with a leg injury.
Bezara, based in South Florida when he first arrived, also trained Narvaez to a fourth-place finish in the 2013 Florida Derby, three-quarters of a length ahead of 2012 champion 2-year-old male champion Shanghai Bobby. Bezara also trained stakes winner Numb Lips.
“I have a lot of great memories from this business, believe me,” he said.
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