Horse Racing Roundup : Pincay Trades a Loser for Five Winners

Laffit Pincay, forgoing the ride on Houston in the Preakness, stayed at Hollywood Park Saturday and rode five winners, including favorites Notorious Pleasure in the $111,900 Will Rogers Handicap on the turf and Bayakoa in the $106,400 Hawthorne Handicap.

Pincay, who has ridden five winners on a card 10 times at Hollywood, won the third race with What Has Been.

He then rode four straight winners, starting with Notorious Pleasure in the fifth race and finishing with Bayakoa in the eighth.

Notorious Pleasure and Bayakoa both won by 4 1/2-length margins in the Grade II races.

In the Will Rogers, a race for 3-year-olds, Notorious Pleasure covered the 1 1/16 miles on the grass in 1:40 1/5 for his third consecutive victory. He paid $8.80, $4.20 and $3. Advocate Training paid $5.40 and $3.60 and First Play returned $4.20.

Bayakoa went wire-to-wire to win the one-mile Hawthorne on the main track in a stakes record 1:32 4/5. Bayakoa paid $3.20, $2.20 and $2.10. Goodbye Halo paid $2.40 and $2.10 and Behind The Scenes returned $2.20. Goodbye Halo, a multiple Grade I stakes winner, has finished second in her last three races.

Pincay also won with Icy Resolution in the sixth and Sam Who in the seventh.

Ogden Phipps’ Seeking The Gold, one of the nation’s leading 3-year-olds last year, came back from a six-month layoff and won the seventh race at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y.

Seeking The Gold, a top contender for handicap races this year, won the seven-furlong allowance for 3-year-olds and up by a neck.

Seeking The Gold, who carried 121 pounds and Craig Perret, was timed in 1:21 3/5 on the fast track to edge Sewickley, who was carrying 124 pounds and Randy Romero.

Seeking The Gold paid $2.60, $2.10 and $2.10. Sewickley returned $3.00 and $2.10, and Cliff Flower paid $2.10.