Joel Rosario, the reigning Eclipse Award winner as outstanding rider, started Saratoga’s much-anticipated encounter exceptionally well with three grading wins including Diana Stakes (G1T) bets. to win the Saratoga title.
The award, voted for by a panel of racing professionals, honors riders who are members of the Jockeys’ Guild, which represents more than 1050 active, retired and permanently disabled riders. permanently in the United States.
On Friday, coach Christophe Clement upgraded Rosario to Man City in Forbidden Apple Staking (G3T) for children 4 years of age and older. Man City broke down to ninth place and was put on the rails by Rosario, settling in seventh. As the pitch neared the turn, Rosario moved Man City outside taking charge in the eighth column to win 2-3/4 in length 1:33.76 for a mile on the inner court. Rosario has now worn the Man City shirt with 4 out of 5 victories of the dark horses.
Rosario said: “I am very comfortable. “For a second I was in the middle of the horses passing the three-eighths figure, but he was handling things well. He ran well today.”
On Saturday, Rosario boarded the train In Italy , who was a light reviewer in Chad Brown’s four-times Eclipse-winning quartet in the film Diana for Puppies 4 and Up. However, she proved to be the best, posting a wire-to-wire victory in 1:45.06, setting a new record for the one-mile and eighth-place grass event.
“She seemed to have gone very easily,” said Rosario, who was riding a horse for the first time in Italian. “She seems to be enjoying everything and that’s very easy for her. She can just go home and just take off again.”
Rosario continued her victory Sunday on board Great Invasion in the Quick Funding program presented again by the Retirement Master (G3) to coach Christophe Clement. Unfavorable in the six-man field, the Grand Invasion raced for fifth place after a sizzling initial pace before making its move in the long leg to give the home team a scoreline victory. 2-3/4 in the final time of 1:00.80 for the Trial of 5-1/2-sided longhair grass for three-year-olds.
“He broke through very well and it looked like it was a bit of a pace up front and we set up very well in the back,” said Rosario. “He did a great job. Back home, I was just a passenger on the best horse in the race.”
Rosario tops the Saratoga horse racing leaderboard with seven wins and a total of $780,738.
Other contenders for horse race of the week are Javier Castellano with two bet wins, Stewart Elliott also with two bet wins, Florent Geroux with two rank bet wins and Horacio Karamanos with one bet win and eight bet wins total for the week.
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