Cabrera Cues up Baby Shark Four Times at Remington
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Photo: Dustin Orona Photography
David Cabrera guides Tizona to victory in the sixth race Sept. 19 at Remington Park
"Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo ..."
Like that song? If you don't, you better get used to it if the rest of the race meet at Remington Park is anything like Thursday night. Jockey David Cabrera began circling the top jockeys at Remington Park like a shark in dangerous waters by winning four races here Thursday night.
Cabrera's winner's circle song is the Baby Shark song because his little girl loves that tune. It played enough on Thursday to make her happy and drive the rest of the jockey colony to insanity as it sounded as if it were playing on a loop. It seems to make people other than Cabrera happy, too. You see adults and children at every level of the six-floor grandstand, dancing and doing the choreography that goes with the song after every Cabrera win.
The four-win night for Cabrera put him within three victories of first-place leading rider Richard Eramia, who won once Thursday and sits atop the standings with 19 trips to the winner's circle. Stewart Elliott is in second, (one win Thursday), to improve to 17 wins. Cabrera has 16. Tied for fourth are Ramon Vazquez and Luis Quinonez with 11 wins apiece.
Last year's top jock at Remington Park, Cabrera started the night off with a bang winning the opener with Don't Tell Lydia ($5.60 to win), owned by End Zone Athletics of Mansfield, Texas, and trained by Karl Broberg. Cabrera won three for Broberg and two for End Zone Athletics. The three Broberg winners were in the first, Dance to My Song ($5) in the fourth, and Tizona ($2.60) in the sixth. Don't Tell Lydia and Tizona were the End Zone Athletics horses. Dance to My Song is owned by Eric Archer of Fort Worth. Cabrera's fourth winner was Kiss My Grits ($11.20) in the fifth for owner Georgie Stuart and 7 Cedars Farm of Barnsdall, Okla., and trained by Clinton Stuart.
The two wins for End Zone Athletics propelled them into a tie for first place with all-time leading owner here, Danny Caldwell, with eight wins each. Tied for third are Steve Asmussen, Bryan Hawk and C.R. Trout with four victories each.
In the trainers' standings, Broberg leap-frogged Donnie Von Hemel into second place behind Asmussen. The current top five in that race are 1) Asmussen, 12 wins; 2) Broberg, 10; 3) Von Hemel, nine; tied for fourth) Federico Villafranco and J.R. Caldwell with eight wins.