US EditionLos Alamitos stakes upset leaves 3 tied for jockey title
Tiago Pereira's win on Smoovin Saturday in the $100,000 King Glorious Stakes resulted in a three-way tie for leading-jockey honors at Los Alamitos, each with six victories.
- On Sunday, Tiago Pereira rode Smoovin Saturday to win the closing-day King Glorious Stakes at Los Alamitos, playing spoiler in the leading-jockey contest.
- Juan Hernandez, Kazushi Kimura, and Armando Ayuso tied with six victories each after the King Glorious at Los Alamitos on Sunday.
- Smoovin Saturday rallied from near the back of the eight-horse field to win the $100,000 King Glorious, with Juan Hernandez second aboard John Metcalfe and Can't Help Myself third for Hector Berrios.
- Pereira's final-race victory immediately reshaped the meet's riding leaderboard by preventing an outright champion, while Doug O'Neill, trainer, secured his second consecutive Los Al trainers title with six wins, two more than Bob Baffert, trainer.
- Daytime thoroughbred racing now pauses for a week before Santa Anita reopens Friday, Dec. 26, and breeder-owner J. Paul Reddam notches his fourth victory in the one-mile California-bred 2-year-old stakes.
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Los Alamitos stakes upset leaves 3 tied for jockey title
Smoovin Saturday and jockey Tiago Pereira won the closing-day King Glorious Stakes at Los Alamitos and played spoiler in the leading-jockey contest. Juan Hernandez, Kazushi Kimura and Armando Ayuso tied for the title with six victories apiece after each had a chance to grab it outright Sunday by winning the King Glorious, the final race of the two-week thoroughbred meet. Hernandez finished second in the King Glorious aboard John Metcalfe, Ayuso …
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