SPRING HOUSE HOPES TO CLEAN HOUSE
IN $100,000 GOLDEN GATE FIELDS TURF
Distance specialists will be featured Saturday at Golden Gate Fields when the track presents the $100,000 Golden Gate Fields Turf, a 1 3/8-miles stakes race for older horses.
Spring House, a multiple graded stakes-winner who has earned $881,284, heads a field of nine in the Golden Gate Fields Turf. Trained by Julio Canani, Spring House
has raced 1 3/8-miles three times and has finished in the money in each start, recording a win and two thirds.
Spring House is 1-for-4 this year, the victory coming on Feb. 22 when he scored a repeat victory in the Grade 2 San Luis Obispo Handicap at Santa Anita. Spring House joined Great Communicator (1988-89) as the only horses to register back-to-back victories in the San Luis Obispo, a 1 1/2-mile turf contest
Spring House is a 7-year-old gelding who has greeted the starter 40 times and amassed eight victories, six seconds and 11 thirds. Owned by R. D. Hubbard, Spring House most recently finished second in the Grade 2 San Juan Capistrano Handicap, a 1 3/4-mile turf marathon run at Santa Anita on April 19.
Canani has employed Hall of Fame jockey Russell Baze to ride Spring House in the Golden Gate Fields Turf, the featured eighth race on a nine-race program.
The field for the Golden Gate Fields Turf, in post position order and with riders, is as follows: Shem, Frank Alvarado; Ordination, David Lopez; Spring House, Baze; Sir Dave, Chad Schvaneveldt; Yacht Spotter, Alex Bisono; Porfido, Brice Blanc; Court Rule, Francisco Duran; Lockford, William Antongeorgi III; and Obrigado, Julio Garcia.
All of the starters carry 123 pounds.
GGF NOTES: Post time Friday through Sunday at Golden Gate Fields is 12:45 p.m….The Spring Concert Series continues Sunday with Journey Unauthorized taking the trackside stage. General admission, general parking, racing programs, hot dogs, beers and sodas are all just $1 Sunday.