Horse racing: Los Alamitos final standings, Del Mar notes

LOS ALAMITOS LEADERS

Final standings

JOCKEYS / WINS

Jorge Velez / 9

Geovanni Franco / 7

J.C. Diaz, Jr. / 6

Four tied / 5

TRAINERS / WINS

Peter Miller / 5

Bob Baffert / 4

Five tied / 3

WEEKEND STAKES SCHEDULE (DEL MAR)

Saturday

• $200,000 Grade II San Diego Handicap, 3-year-olds and up, 1-1/16 miles

• $200,000 Grade II San Clemente Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 1 mile (turf)

Sunday

• $250,000 Grade II Eddie Read Stakes, 3-year-olds and up, 1-1/8 miles (turf)

DOWN THE STRETCH

• Maximum Security, who crossed the finish line first in the Kentucky Derby but was disqualified and placed 17th for interference, heads a seven-horse field in Saturday’s $1 million Grade I Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park. Maximum Security, who will be ridden again by Luis Saez, was installed as the 8-5 morning-line favorite on the heels of a disappointing runner-up effort behind King for a Day as the 1-20 favorite in the Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth on June 16. Trainer Bob Baffert will be aiming for a record ninth Haskell victory when he sends out Affirmed Stakes winner Mucho Gusto in the 1-1/8-mile race. Joe Talamo will ride.

• Catalina Cruiser, fresh off a victory in the True North at Belmont Park on June 8, heads a short field of six in Saturday’s $200,000 Grade II San Diego Handicap at Del Mar. Catalina Cruiser, who won the San Diego and Pat O’Brien Stakes at Del Mar last summer before finishing sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Churchill Downs, has won five of six lifetime and is expected to be a heavy favorite when he loads into the starting gate for the 1-1/16-mile race with Joel Rosario aboard. Owned by Hronis Racing and trained by John Sadler, Catalina Cruiser is a 5-year-old son of Union Rags.

• Sadler is not happy that his friend and fellow trainer Jerry Hollendorfer is not allowed to train or race at Del Mar. “There’s a big sadness for me coming here this year with what happened to Hollendorfer,” Sadler, former president of the California Thoroughbred Trainers, told Del Mar publicity. “He’s been my friend and neighbor at the end of the stalls for quite a few years here, so it’s a little depressing.” He expounded even more after his victory with Jasikan in the Oceanside Stakes on opening day at Del Mar, telling reporters he feels Hollendorfer has been “scapegoated” after all that has transpired this year.

— Art Wilson

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