From DMTC Publicity
DEL MAR, Calif. (July 27, 2018) — Taking the shortest way home, Northern California Yearling Sale graduate Take the One O One rallied on the rail turning into the stretch to take the lead and continued on gamely to win the featured $150,000 Real Good Deal Stakes for Golden State Series-eligible 3-year-olds under jockey Joe Talamo Friday.
Take the One O One, bred by Thomas Bachman, owned by Jay Em Ess Stable and trained by Brian Koriner, held off the game late challenge of Daddysprize to win by a half-length in 1:23.40 for the seven furlongs. Third was 45-1 longshot Shaymin, who closed from last place to be one and one quarter lengths behind the runner-up and a length ahead of fourth-place Fashionably Fast in the field of seven California-bred three-year-olds. Psycho Dar was withdrawn.
Smiling Angelo, unbeaten in two starts and second choice at 2-1, flattened out after setting the pace and finished fifth.
Take the One O One, a son of Acclamation, was a $47,000 purchase at the Northern California Yearling Sale. The favorite scored his fourth victory in nine starts, with only a single race in which he was worse than third, seventh in the Del Mar Juvenile Turf last September.
Take the One O One returned $4.20, $2.80 and $2.60 and first money of $85,500 increased his earnings to $341,181. In his previous outing, he won the Snow Chief Stakes at Santa Anita at nine furlongs on the grass.
Runner-up Daddysprize, with Tyler Baze, paid $4.40 and $3.20, while Shaymin returned $7 to show.
Del Mar newcomer Geovanni Franco was the day’s riding star, booting in three winners – Royal Asscher at $21.20 in the first, Naughty Sophie at $4.60 in the fourth and Indian Gulch at $8.80 in the eighth.
There were 29 perfect tickets in Friday’s Pick Six and each was worth $19,523. With a two-day carryover of $165,582 and “new” money of $741,440, the Pick Six pool totaled $907,022.