ARCADIA, Calif. (Oct. 29, 2013)\u2014Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Williams\u2019 homebred Tamarando, a winner of the Grade I Del Mar Futurity Sept. 4, heads a field of nine set to go in Friday\u2019s $200,000 Golden State Juvenile at Santa Anita for 2-year-olds bred or sired in California.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trained by Jerry Hollendorfer, Tamarando, by Bertrando, tried two turns for the first time in his most recent start, a third place finish in the Grade I FrontRunner Stakes at a mile and a sixteenth on Sept. 28.\u00a0 In the FrontRunner, he was away slowly and hit the side of the starting gate, which resulted in him being far back, next-to-last into the Club House turn, in the 10-horse FrontRunner.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With two wins, a second and a third from five starts\u2014good for earnings of $273,120, Tamarando has been installed as the solid 8-5 morning line favorite.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 California Chrome, who rallied late to finish sixth, beaten just two lengths in the seven furlong Del Mar Futurity, is trained by Art Sherman and will try a route of ground for the first time.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A chestnut son of hot sire Lucky Pulpit, California Chrome was an easy winner of the $100,000 Graduation Stakes versus statebreds two starts back on July 31.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Owned by his breeders, Steven Coburn and Martin Perry, California Chrome has $100,850 in earnings from a record of 5-2-1-0.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hollendorfer will also send out the undefeated Life Is a Joy, a 2-year-old gelding by Globalize who comes off a six-length win in the one mile Charlie Palmer Futurity at The Big Fresno Fair.\u00a0 Off at 7-2, Life Is a Joy won gate to wire in 1:36.88, and earned a Beyer Speed figure of 73.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Owned and bred by Hollendorfer, his wife, Janet, and George Todaro, Life Is a Joy has earnings of $85,330 and he\u2019ll be ridden for the first time by eastern-based Joel Rosario.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The complete field for the $200,000 Golden State Juvenile, with all horses assigned 121 pounds, to be run as the third race on an 11-race card Friday, in post position order with jockeys and morning line:\u00a0 California Chrome, Alberto Delgado, 3-1; Life Is a Joy, Joel Rosario, 9-2; Electric Eddie, Mario Gutierrez, 12-1; Gangnam Guy, Edwin Maldonado, 9-2; Tribal Mystic, Corey Nakatani, 20-1; Sir Barclay, Chantal Sutherland Kruse, 15-1; Tamarando, Julien Leparoux, 8-5; Cinmars Dance, Alex Bisono, 8-1, and Better Bet, Martin Pedroza, 12-1.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n About Us<\/strong><\/p>\n Santa Anita Park is a Stronach Group company, North America\u2019s leading Thoroughbred racetrack owner\/operator. The Stronach Group racetracks include Santa Anita Park, Gulfstream Park & Casino, Golden Gate Fields, Portland Meadows, Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Course, home of the world-famous Preakness. The company owns and operates the Palm Meadows Training Center in Florida, and is one of North America’s top race horse breeders through its award-winning Adena Springs operation. The Stronach Group is one of the world’s largest suppliers of\u00a0pari-mutuel\u00a0wagering systems, technologies and services. Its companies include AmTote, a\u00a0global leader in wagering technology; Xpressbet, an\u00a0Internet and telephone account wagering service; and Monarch Content Management, which acts as a simulcast purchase and sales agent of horseracing content for numerous North American racetracks and wagering outlets.The Stronach Group is also a major producer of televised horseracing programming through its HRTV cable and satellite network and is North America’s premier supplier of virtual online horseracing games, as well as a leading producer of social media content for the horseracing industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ARCADIA, Calif. (Oct. 29, 2013)—Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Williams’ homebred Tamarando, a winner of the Grade I Del Mar Futurity Sept. 4, heads a field of nine set to go in Friday’s $200,000 Golden State Juvenile at Santa Anita for 2-year-olds bred or sired in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[97,52,2044],"tags":[555,1316,1315,968,1314],"class_list":["post-3592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-events-magazine","category-events-magazine","category-magazine","tag-555","tag-000-golden-state-juvenile","tag-grade-i-del-mar-futurity","tag-jerry-hollendorfer","tag-tamarando"],"yoast_head":"\n