DEL MAR : Another Review, Another Jockey for the San Diego

Another Review, who finished third as the 11-10 favorite in the $1-million Hollywood Gold Cup, will have a different jockey for Saturday’s $125,000-added San Diego Handicap.

Kent Desormeaux lost the mount on Another Review when trainer Chris Speckert, upset with the results of the Gold Cup, gave it to Laffit Pincay.

“Laffit used to ride the horse,” Speckert said about the switch. “And he’s the one who gave me faith in the orse back when he was getting beat all of the time.”

Speckert also questioned Desormeaux’s early tactics in the Hollywood Gold Cup, when he allowed Another Review to get boxed in. Sultry Song, under Jerry Bailey, led wire-to-wire in the 1 1/4-mile race, and Marquetry finished second.

“I didn’t quite understand that,” Speckert said. “I can’t say he would have won (had Desormeaux immediately brought Another Review to the front), but it was just the reverse of how the horse likes to run.

“He doesn’t like dirt in his face,” Speckert said of the 4-year-old colt.

But Desormeaux said he had no options.

“I know he doesn’t care for dirt in his face,” Desormeaux said. “But there was nothing I could do. They just out-broke me early. I really would have had to jack him to go to the front, and that would have been ignorant.

“Jerry Bailey just ran a perfect race.”

Speckert saw it differently and made the change.

“At the beginning of the race,” Speckert said, “he’s supposed to take his position.”

That is sometimes difficult for a heavy favorite in a high-stakes race.

“If someone else is on the favorite,” Desormeaux said, “I’m going to do everything I can to get that horse in an unfamiliar position. And that’s what Bailey did. He just moved his horse a lot sooner than the rest.”

Another Review will be in his first race at Del Mar. He has been assigned highweight of 120 pounds for Saturday’s 1 1/8-mile feature.

Pincay will hope for the kind of run Another Review turned in Friday during a training session: 1:10 2/5 over six furlongs.

“That was a little faster than I had wanted,” Speckert said. “But then good horses often do better than expected. I just wanted him to go out easy, but I don’t call 1:10-2 easy.”

Speckert is using the Grade III San Diego as a steppingstone to the $1-million Pacific Classic on Aug. 30. The rest of the field for Saturday’s race includes: Claret (Eddie Delahoussaye, 112 pounds), Missionary Ridge (David Flores, 115), Renegotiable (no rider, 115) and Subordinated Debt (no rider, 114)

In addition, Desormeaux will be going against his lost mount on Quintana, another 4-year-old colt, who has not won this year in 10 starts. Quintana has been assigned the lightest weight of the field, 111 pounds.

“I hated to lose Another Review,” Desormeaux said. “He’s a genuine horse, and he’s definitely going to win some big races. . . . I had a great meet at Hollywood, but the thing I’m going to remember most is losing a $1-million race and then losing that horse. That will obscure my 107 wins there.”

Saturday’s other stake, the $75,000-added San Clemente Handicap, probably will be split, creating a stakes tripleheader. Talk of the split came as a result of 30 3-year-old fillies being nominated to the one-mile turf event.

Second Stop and Golden Treat probably will make their turf debuts in the San Clemente. Trainer Jack Van Berg plans to start Alysbelle, a full sister to Alysheba, with Alex Solis as the jockey. Eddie Delahoussaye is the probable rider aboard Morriston Belle.

Also on Saturday, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club will hold its Donuts at Del Mar program at 8 a.m. Officials expect more than 2,000 to show up for the free seminar, during which they can watch morning workouts and chat with announcer Trevor Denman, trainer Bob Hess and Delahoussaye.

Hess, 27, was the leading trainer for the recent Hollywood Park Meeting and was the leading trainer last year at Del Mar, saddling 18 winners.