Horses, Jockeys Travel West for Red Carpet Handicap

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Photo: Keeneland/Coady Photography
Blame Debbie wins the Dowager Stakes at Keeneland

The 10-horse field for the $100,000 Red Carpet Handicap (G3T), the Thanksgiving Day feature at Del Mar, includes four horses who last raced in New York or Kentucky on assignment from nationally renowned trainers. Three of them will have elite Eastern-based jockeys who venture west only when the stakes are most plentiful and highest—as they will be through the four final days of the Bing Crosby season.

The Red Carpet, a 1 3/8-mile marathon for fillies and mares, will kick off a series of seven graded grass stakes at the Southern California track that will continue through the end of the meet Nov. 29.

Three notable equine travelers for the Red Carpet are Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables, and Wonder Stables' Orglandes for trainer Chad Brown; St. George Farm Racing's Woodfin for Victoria Oliver; and Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Michael Cloonan, and Timothy Thornton's Blame Debbie for Graham Motion. In California, Peter Miller has had Gary Barber and Wachtel Stable's California Kook, the runner-up in the Del Mar Oaks (G1T) Aug. 22, in training at San Luis Rey Downs for a month since returning from a fifth-place finish in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Presented by Dixiana (G1T) Oct. 10 at Keeneland.

Irad Ortiz Jr. will ride Orglandes, a 4-year-old import from France making her third start in the United States after a win at Belmont Park Oct. 9. Joel Rosario has the call on California Kook. Manny Franco will be aboard Blame Debbie after their initial collaboration resulted in victory in the Rood and Riddle Dowager Stales (G3T) at Keeneland Oct. 18.

Never Be Enough, Colonial Creed, Going to Vegas, Aunt Lubie, Hollywood Girl, and Quick complete the field.


Entries: Red Carpet H. (G3T)

Del Mar, Thursday, November 26, 2020, Race 6

  • Grade IIIT
  • 1 3/8m
  • Turf
  • $100,000
  • 3 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
  • 1:30 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 California Kook (CA) Joel Rosario 119 Peter Miller -
2 Never Be Enough (GB) Tiago Josue Pereira 122 Manuel Badilla -
3 Colonial Creed (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Flavien Prat 121 Richard Baltas -
4 Orglandes (FR) Irad Ortiz, Jr. 120 Chad C. Brown -
5 Going to Vegas (KY) Mario Gutierrez 118 Richard Baltas -
6 Woodfin (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Jose Valdivia, Jr. 117 Victoria H. Oliver -
7 Aunt Lubie (MD)Keeneland Sales Graduate Victor Espinoza 117 Richard E. Mandella -
8 Blame Debbie (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Manuel Franco 120 H. Graham Motion -
9 Hollywood Girl (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Mike E. Smith 117 John A. Shirreffs -
10 Quick (GB) UMBERTO RISPOLI 118 John W. Sadler -