The Chosen Vron scores a sixth straight win while easily winning the $400,000 Grade I Bing Crosby for the second straight year
The Chosen Vron and jockey Hector Berrios win the Grade I, $400,000 Bing Crosby Stakes, Saturday, July 27, 2024 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Del Mar CA. © BENOIT PHOTOHandled masterfully by jockey Hector Berrios, The Chosen Vron scored a sixth straight win while easily winning the $400,000 Grade I Bing Crosby for the second straight year at Del Mar.
Meanwhile, defending Pacific Classic champion Arabian Knight, who went off as the 2-5 favorite, finished fourth in a field of five in the $300,000 Grade II, 1 1/16-mile San Diego Handicap — won impressively by Dr. Venkman.“He was marvelous,” Berrios said of The Chosen Vron. “From the three-eighths pole I let him go and he went himself.”
Fresu positioned Dr. Venkman outside and just behind Arabian Knight down the backstretch, then moved into the lead on the far turn and held the lead to the finish, winning by a length over long shot Katonah with Express Train, coming off a long lay-off, another 3¾ lengths back in third. “No excuses for him today,” jockey Juan Hernandez said of Arabian Knight, who was making his first start since placing sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic last Nov. 4 at Santa Anita. “We used his speed, of course, and I tried to open up with him but it just wasn’t there. He probably needed the race.”
Under Kyle Frey, Connie Swingle , a 5-year-old daughter of Grazen, picked up a total of $78,000 as a Cal-bred winner. She finished 1¾ lengths ahead of favorite Elm Drive as the two D’Amato horses powered by leaders Itzel and Stay and Scam in the stretch.Gold Phoenix won the Grade II Eddie Read Stakes last summer en route to being named the top grass horse of the 2023 meeting. He also won the Grade II Del Mar Handicap later in the meeting.
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