Pincay Gets a Record 54th Four-Win Day

Jockey Laffit Pincay won with his first four mounts Wednesday, moving closer to Bill Shoemaker’s mark for all-time victories and passing Shoemaker in Hollywood Park’s record book.

It was Pincay’s 54th four-win day at Hollywood Park, breaking the record he had shared with Shoemaker, but his first locally since June 5, 1992. Pincay, who had not won in the first three days of the Hollywood Park meet, has 8,735 victories, 98 behind Shoemaker’s record of 8,833.

Two of the wins Wednesday came for Bill Spawr, a trainer who has continued to use Pincay through the years when others would not. Pincay, 52, scored for Spawr with Morell’s Love, who won the third as the 9-10 favorite, and Mountain Bike, who was 2-1 in the fifth.

The other wins came with Vichim, who went gate-to-wire to break his maiden in the first, and 8-1 shot Stanton Harcourt, who led all the way in taking the second on the grass.

Third in the standings behind David Flores and Alex Solis at the recently concluded Santa Anita season, Pincay finished fourth on Glass Beauty in the sixth race.

There was also some bad news Wednesday for Pincay. He was given a three-day suspension for “failing to maintain a straight course leaving the starting gate and causing interference” on Really A Year in Sunday’s second race at Golden Gate Fields, where he went to ride Such Charisma in the San Francisco Breeders’ Cup Mile. The suspension begins May 5.