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    Horse racing notes: Juan Hernandez gets his first Kentucky Derby mount
    • April 28, 2023

    SANTA ANITA LEADERS

    Through Thursday

    JOCKEYS / WINS

    Juan Hernandez / 5

    Umberto Rispoli / 5

    Edwin Maldonado / 4

    Abel Cedillo / 3

    Joe Bravo / 2

    TRAINERS / WINS

    Peter Eurton / 3

    Craig Lewis / 3

    Doug O’Neill / 3

    Three tied / 2

    WEEKEND STAKES (SANTA ANITA)

    Saturday

    • $200,000 Grade II Santa Maria Stakes, fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, 1-1/16 miles

    • $100,000 Grade III Providencia Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 1-1/8 miles (turf)

    Sunday

    • $100,000 Grade III Wilshire Stakes, fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, 1 mile (turf)

    • $100,000 Santa Barbara Stakes, fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, 1½ miles (turf)

    DOWN THE STRETCH

    • The Bob Baffert-trained Adare Manor, fresh off an allowance victory, heads a field of six in Saturday’s $200,000 Grade II Santa Maria Stakes for older fillies and mares at Santa Anita. The 4-year-old Uncle Mo filly will be ridden for the third consecutive race by Juan Hernandez, winner of Santa Anita’s Classic Meet riding title in a breeze and tied with Umberto Rispoli with five victories apiece through the first week of the Hollywood Meet. Adare Manor has won three of nine races for earnings of $381,600.

    • Edwin Maldonado, who turned 40 on Dec. 1, is riding as well as ever. He won a career-high-tying four races on one card at Santa Anita last weekend and is sparking memories of 10 years ago when he snapped Martin Pedroza’s stranglehold on the riding title at Fairplex Park and then won the Hollywood Park fall meet in 2012. Maldonado revitalized his career during the 2021 Del Mar summer meet thanks in great part to a potent working relationship with agent Tony Matos.

    • Hernandez has parlayed immediate success since arriving at Santa Anita in 2020 with the chance to ride in his first Kentucky Derby. The 31-year-old Hernandez replaces Hall of Famer Victor Espinoza aboard the John Shirreffs-trained Skinner, who was third, beaten by only a half-length by Practical Move in the Santa Anita Derby. Skinner, 21st in the Derby points standings, drew into the race Thursday morning when Sunland Derby winner Wild On Ice, 20th on the list, suffered a catastrophic injury during a workout at Churchill Downs.

    — Art Wilson

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    ​ Orange County Register 

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