12:15 P.M. POST FOR NEW YEAR’S DAY CARD AT GGF,
VICARINO FAVORED IN STINSON BEACH STAKES
Golden Gate Fields will ring in the New Year with a big 10-race card Monday. Post time is 12:15 p.m. and fans attending the track will receive a free long-sleeved GGF
T-Shirt.
The holiday card will be highlighted by the $50,000-added Stinson Beach Stakes, a six-furlong race for colts and geldings celebrating their 3-year-old birthday Monday.
The Stinson Beach is the ninth race on the card and the field, in post position order, is as follows: Double Action, Chad Schvaneveldt rides at 119 pounds, 5-to-2 on the morning line; Ex Mountain Cop, David Lopez, 122, 6-to-1; Vicarino, Russell Baze, 122, 4-to-5; Zoning In, Frank Alvarado, 122, 12-to-1; and Candy’s Bro, Joel Rosario, 119,
4-to-1.
Vicarino, a Kentucky-bred colt trained by Greg Gilchrist, has two wins and a second in three career starts. Owned by Harry J. Aleo, Vicarino is coming off a track record-setting performance at the Big Fresno Fair, where he won the six-furlong Harvest Festival Futurity by 11 lengths in 1:07.34 on Oct. 13.
Vicarino has been favored in each of his three starts, and as evidenced by his morning-line odds, he is expected to rule a heavy favorite again Monday.
Double Action and Candy’s Bro are both trained by Jerry Hollendorfer and both enter the Stinson Beach with two-race winning streaks.
Double Action, who made his first four starts in Florida, won a six-furlong allowance race at Bay Meadows on Nov. 12 in his West Coast debut. Candy’s Bro has two wins and a second in three outings and most recently scored a game victory in a six-furlong allowance dash at Bay Meadows on Oct. 26.
Ex Mountain Cop invades from Oregon, where he won four straight stakes at Portland Meadows. Ex Mountain Cop will make his first start for trainer John F. Martin in the Stinson Beach.
Zoning In hails from the hot barn of trainer Ed Moger, Jr., and the California-bred colt will be seeking his second career stakes victory. Owned by Curt and Lila Lanning,
Zoning In won the Malcolm Anderson Stakes at Bay Meadows last June.