From Golden Gate Publicity
ALBANY, Calif. (April 27, 2022) — Camino Del Paraiso is one of five California-breds entered in the marquee race of the year at Golden Gate Fields, Saturday’s $250,000 Grade III San Francisco Mile for 3-year-olds and upward at one mile on turf, drew a full field of 14 early Wednesday afternoon.
Camino Del Paraiso, a four-time stakes winner at Golden Gate for trainer O.J Jauregui, is by Suances, out of the Successful Appeal mare Loni’s Appeal, and was bred by Red Baron’s Barn. The 9-year-old veteran finished as the runner up in the Unusual Heat Turf Classic for California-breds at Santa Anita earlier this year and finished third in the 2020 San Francisco Mile.
Freeport Joe, a son of English Channel bred by Richard Barton Enterprises, won the Grade III Berkeley Handicap in November and a pair of open allowance races immediately following the graded stakes triumph. His last two races have resulted in losses. He seeks to rebound for local trainer Gloria Haley, who employs Ruben Fuentes to ride for the first time.
Grade I winner Get Her Number is one of two contenders entered for Southern California conditioner Ruben Alvarado. Get Her Number, to be ridden by Evin Roman for the first time, won the Grade I American Pharoah Stakes as a 2-year-old at Santa Anita and most recently defeated a salty bunch of second level allowance sprinters on turf.
The other Alvarado trainee is Indian Peak, whose best career effort came at the one-mile and a sixteenth distance when finishing third in the Grade 2 Seabiscuit Handicap at Del Mar last year. Earlier this winter, the California-bred placed second in the Grade 3 San Simeon Stakes.
California-bred stakes winner Jimmy Blue Jeans, stakes placed Tom’s Surprise are also entered.
Race 9: The $250,000 Grade 3 San Francisco Mile (for 3-year-olds and upward at one mile on turf)
1. Freeport Joe (Jockey Ruben Fuentes…Trainer Gloria Haley)
2. Indian Peak (Irving Orozco…Ruben Alvarado)
3. Harmon (Julien Couton…Monty Meier)
4. Vanzzy (Joe Bravo…Richard Baltas)
5. Jimmy Blue Jeans (Assael Espinoza…Andy Mathis)
6. Evening Sun (Brice Blanc…Jeff Mullins)
7. Tiz Plus (Jose Valdivia Jr…Mike Puype)
8. Delaware (William Antongeorgi III…Paddy Gallagher)
9. Camino Del Paraiso (Catalino Martinez…O.J. Jauregui)
10. Nolde (Pedro Terrero…Steve Sherman)
11. Restrainedvengence (Edwin Maldonado…Val Brinkerhoff)
12. Tom’s Surprise (Armando Ayuso…Jack Steiner)
13. Get Her Number (Evin Roman…Ruben Alvarado)
14. Ecrivain (Jessica Pyfer…Richard Mandella)