For this intrepid blogger, the best race of the day was not an east coast stake or even the local feature, but the 4th at Golden Gate today in which my new favorite jockey, Annie Sanguinetti, brought home a 6-1 shot on whom I'd plunked down more than a few shekels.
Carlos Nieto finished second aboard Phenomanal Star at 23-1 and Barrington Harvey again outran his odds on the 35-1 Thunder Bebe to round out a $1,587.70 trifecta. The Steve Miyadi trained odds-on favorite, Punch Maryland, finished a well beaten sixth after setting the pace and fading like a bad dye job.
Per the chart, Annie's mount, Luckyanunoit, broke alertly, took a favorable striking position into the first turn while three wide to the backstretch, remained a factor three wide on the second turn, rallied into the lane, gained command in mid stretch and won driving.
Above top, Annie charges to the lead aboard Luckyanunoit with interstate 80 and the town of Albany in the background. Above right, Annie hands out goggles to diminutive railbirds
4 comments:
Seriously, she's not going by "Annie" down there, is she?
she's Anne in the program and that's how the announcer refers to her, but, yes, her friends call her Annie. why do you ask?
When she was riding up here, I never heard anyone call her "Annie", she seemed to just fit the name "Anne"...bright, articulate, educated, kind-natured.
Annie is always how I addressed her at PM...sweet kid and smart too...got her bachelors in economics and minored in spanish...one of my favorites in her brief time at the delta park oval...
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