Prize Exhibit Takes the San Clemente
Updated: July 19, 2015 at 10:40 pm
DP Racing’s Prize Exhibit (GB) (Showcasing {GB}), fresh off her first graded victory in Santa Anita’s GIII Senorita S. June 27, closed decisively down the straight in Del Mar’s GII San Clement H. to record another sparkling win Sunday afternoon. The second choice broke well and was content to establish her usual position at the back of the field against the fence as Spirit of Xian (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) set the early pace through splits of :23.27 and :47.25. As favored Sunset Glow (Exchange Rate) made her move toward the front, Prize Exhibit, still in last, angled out and quickly passed rivals on the bend. She continued her determined charge down the stretch to take command from Sunset Glow in the final furlong and score by 1 1/2 lengths.
“This turf seems pretty firm [despite the rain], Cassidy said. “There’s no kickback to it at all. You have no idea how tough this filly is to train. She doesn’t care. One work she started at the five-eighths pole, pulled up at the half, jogged to the three-eighths, galloped a little bit to the quarter pole, then took off and went all the way back to the five-eighths. But you look at her today and she wasn’t even trying to run off. If you looked at her today and didn’t know she was quirky, you’d think she was very professional. The GI Del Mar] Oaks [Aug. 15] is next.”
“She felt good all the way around,” Jockey Santiago Gonzalez, who had three winner’s on the Sunday card, said through an interpreter. “I knew I had horse under me. I waited until the quarter pole and then I let her run. She responded very well. This is my first stakes win at Del Mar. This is special, very special.” Prize Exhibit began her career under the care of Upper Lambourn trainer Jamie Osborne. A debut winner as a juvenile at Nottingham in August, the dark bay was off the board in two subsequent starts, but finished a close third in the G3 Oh So Sharp S. at Newmarket Oct. 4. She ran well to round out the GI Breeders’ Cup Fillies Juvenile Turf superfecta behind Lady Eli (Divine Park), Sunset Glow and Osaila (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) in her first start on North American soil Oct. 31. DP racing must have decided the California climate suited the filly and kept her in Arcadia with trainer James Cassidy. Successful in an optional claimer there Jan. 25, she then finished fourth in Santa Anita’s GIII Providencia S. and GII Honeymoon S., both going 1 1/8 miles Apr. 4 and May 3, respectively. She shipped East and never factored when fifth in the Penn Oaks May 30, but redeemed herself with a winning performance in the GIII Senorita S. June 27, earning a career best 4 Thoro-graph figure after rallying from a sluggish beginning.
SAN CLEMENTE H.-GII, $200,250, DMR, 7-19, 3yo, f, 1mT, 1:36.05, gd.
1–PRIZE EXHIBIT (GB), 122, f, 3, by Showcasing (GB) 1st Dam: Roodeye (GB) (GSP-Eng), by Inchinor (GB) 2nd Dam: Roo (GB), by Rudimentary 3rd Dam: Shall We Run (GB), by Hotfoot (GB) 28,000gns Ylg ’13 TAOCT). O-DP Racing, LLC; B-Mrs R. F. Johnson Houghton (GB); T-James M. Cassidy; J-Santiago Gonzalez. $120,000. Lifetime Record: GSP-Eng, 15-5-1-1, $332,050. Werk Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Sunset Glow, 122, f, 3, Exchange Rate— Perfectforthepart, by Dynaformer. ($60,000 Wlg ’12 KEENOV; $140,000 Ylg ’13 KEESEP). O-Ten Broeck Farm, Inc.; B-Gayla Rankin/GLR Ranch (KY); T-Wesley A. Ward. $40,000.
3–Paulina’s Love, 118, f, 3, Mizzen Mast–Electric Cove, by Spinning World. ($100,000 2yo ’14 OBSAPR). O-KM Racing Enterprise, Inc.; B-Jason Hall (LA); T-Richard Baltas. $24,000. Margins: 1HF, 3/4, 2HF. Odds: 3.60, 1.70, 12.50. Also Ran: Spirit of Xian (Ire), Screaming Skylar, Her Emmynency. Scratched: Campionessa Dolce, Moyo Honey, Pammy Whammy. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.