Lottery Winner Wins the Goodwood : Oak Tree: Jolypha finishes fourth as the heavy favorite. Nakatani decries stewards after foul claim is disallowed.

After Jolypha had been beaten again, her trainer, Bobby Frankel, didn’t say much, and another jockey in the race, Corey Nakatani, might have said too much.

Frankel, walking toward the Santa Anita barn area after conferring with jockey Corey Black, declined to discuss Sunday’s $217,000 Goodwood Handicap, in which Jolypha ran fourth as the 13-10 favorite. A little later, Nakatani criticized the stewards, who quickly dismissed his foul claim and allowed Lottery Winner’s three-quarters-length victory over Region to stand.

As the riders prepared for the next race, Kent Desormeaux, the rider of Lottery Winner, and Nakatani, who rode Region, shouted insults at each other across the jockeys’ room.

Then Nakatani took off on the three stewards.

“They’re inconsistent and . . . stupid, that’s what they are,” Nakatani said. “I was riding a straight course the other day and they (suspended me). Then (Desormeaux) comes over four lanes, and they do nothing. The only thing that’s consistent about them is their inconsistency. He’s riding Lottery Winner five wide, and then all of a sudden he’s only two wide, in my way. There are certain jocks around here who get protected.”

Nakatani, supposed to serve a five-day suspension that started last Wednesday, was riding Saturday and Sunday because he was able to obtain a court order that stayed the stewards’ ruling.

Lottery Winner had carried Jolypha wide at the top of the stretch, and when the 4-year-old gelding came back in, Nakatani thought he had been shut off and fouled as Region tried to squeeze between horses.

Desormeaux shrugged off a question about whether the stewards favored certain jockeys. “My horse just got to the hole faster than his did,” Desormeaux said. “My horse exploded. I had plenty of horse, and he came home the winner.”

Since running third for her French trainer, Andre Fabre, in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic and being sent to Frankel in California, the trainer has raved about the talent Jolypha has. But after winning an allowance race at Hollywood Park in May, the 4-year-old filly has been beaten three times. Desormeaux took the blame after she was trapped on the fence against Flawlessly in the Beverly Hills Handicap at Hollywood, and Frankel said that she bled while running sixth at Del Mar in the Ramona Handicap, another race that Flawlessly won.

In the Goodwood, she ran against males.

“If you had drawn the earlier part of the race on paper, you couldn’t have drawn it better,” Black said. “But then when I pushed the button, there was no response. By the time we got to the eighth pole, I knew she wasn’t going to win. We were carried wide, but it was the winner that did it, and he had plenty left. I’m not around the filly in the mornings, but I heard that she might have worked too fast the other day. Bobby wanted her to work slow, and she worked fast.”

In a five-furlong workout on Wednesday, Jolypha was timed in 59 4/5.

Frankel indicated after the Goodwood that his plan about Jolypha facing males again, in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita on Nov. 6, hadn’t changed.

The third betting choice, Lottery Winner paid $10.40 to win, earning $127,200 for owner Ernest Auerbach. His time for 1 1/8 miles was 1:47 3/5.

Lottery Winner ended a five-race losing streak, the most recent defeat a dismal sixth-place effort in the Pomona Handicap at Fairplex Park on Oct. 3 after losing by only a head to Region in the Del Mar Budweiser Breeders’ Cup Stakes three weeks before.

“I thought I was prepping for the Fairplex race at Del Mar,” said Jay Robbins, who trains Lottery Winner. “Turns out I was prepping for here at Fairplex.”

Robbins won the Goodwood last year with Reign Road. Lottery Winner carried 115 pounds Sunday, one less than Region and Jolypha, and two under the high weight, Fanatic Boy, who ran last in the seven-horse field.

Have Fun, also trained by Frankel, set the modest early fractions, with Lottery Winner close behind and Jolypha in third.

Desormeaux hadn’t ridden Lottery Winner since his last victory, at Hollywood Park on May 22.

“He’s a tough horse,” Desormeaux said. “It takes a tough customer to get by him. He reminds me a lot of Marquetry, the way they’re in and out. It’s been my luck to be on these horses at the right time.”

Desormeaux rode Marquetry to victory Friday night in the Meadowlands Cup.

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Lottery Winner isn’t eligible for the Breeders’ Cup. Two horses that are, Cardmania and Music Merci, ran 1-2 in the $106,975 Ancient Title Breeders’ Cup Handicap earlier in the day and probably will run in the $1-million Breeders’ Cup Sprint on Nov. 6.

The six-furlong Sprint is the same distance as the Ancient Title, which Cardmania won by 2 1/2 lengths with Music Merci, next to last at the eighth pole, surging at the end.

Eddie Delahoussaye, who rode Cardmania, must decide whether he will ride the 7-year-old gelding or Thirty Slews in the Sprint. Delahoussaye rode Thirty Slews to an upset victory in last year’s Sprint, at Gulfstream Park, but the 6-year-old gelding has shown little this year.

Delahoussaye also won Sunday’s other stake, riding Johann Quatz to a half-length victory over Myrakalu in the $107,350 Koester Handicap.

Desormeaux rode both favorites in these races, finishing third in the Koester with The Tender Track, only a neck behind Myrakalu, and running fifth in the Ancient Title aboard Wild Harmony, who had a wide trip.

Horse Racing Notes

Eddie Delahoussaye, who started the day as the leading jockey at the Oak Tree meet, won three times, increasing his total to 15. . . . Gary Stevens was at Woodbine Sunday, finishing fourth with Modhish in the $1-million Rothmans International.