Shoemaker Gets His First Graded Stakes Win as Trainer

Baldomero gave retired jockey Bill Shoemaker his first graded-stakes victory as a trainer by capturing Sunday’s Grade II, $200,000 Golden Harvest Handicap at Louisiana Downs.

Baldomero, a five-year-old mare ridden by Gary Stevens, got through along the rail and held on for a head victory in the 1 3/8-mile event over the Sawyer Turf Course. Nine 3-year-old and older fillies and mares competed in what ended as a three-horse photo finish with Freya Stark and Foresta.

Shoemaker, who retired in February as the world’s winningest jockey, won the Golden Harvest three consecutive times as a jockey, taking both divisions in 1982 and then in 1983.