Frankel adds to win total

Trainer Bobby Frankel added two more stakes wins to his meet-leading total and moved closer to Charlie Whittingham on the all-time victory list at Santa Anita on Saturday.

Two races after 7-2 longshot Night Chapter ran down pacesetter Roi Charmant to win the $80,000 Daytona Handicap, even-money favorite Latent Heat won his second graded stakes in a row, beating Proud Tower Too and eight others in the $150,000 San Carlos.

The victories gave Frankel eight stakes successes nearing the halfway point of the season. He also has 863 career wins during the winter-spring meet, leaving him six back of Whittingham.

A homebred son of Maria’s Mon owned by Juddmonte Farms, Latent Heat, who had won the Malibu on Dec. 26, attacked Proud Tower Too right from the start under Edgar Prado, took the lead, then found some renewed energy in the final eighth of a mile to win by a neck. The victory was the sixth in 10 starts for Latent Heat, who ran the seven furlongs in the Grade II in 1:21.11.

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In the Daytona, Night Chapter, who is co-owned by Frankel, won for the sixth time in 22 starts, completing the about 6 1/2 furlongs on turf in 1:12.57 under jockey Brice Blanc.

Taikun, the 2-1 favorite, was pulled up during the race because he was bleeding from his nostrils and had a problem with his right front leg.

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Leading rider Garrett Gomez took off his remaining mounts after riding the first race, saying he wasn’t feeling well. Corey Nakatani also took off because of illness.

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Trainer Allen Jerkens swept both Grade III stakes at Gulfstream Park, taking the Sabin with 5-2 second choice Swap Fliparoo and the Hurricane Bertie with favored Any Limit.

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Any Given Saturday, one of trainer Todd Pletcher’s top 3-year-olds, did the expected in his 2007 debut, winning the $146,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs. The win was the third in four starts for the son of Distorted Humor.

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Itsallgreektome, a multiple stakes winner on turf, was euthanized because of old age on Thursday at Cardiff Stud Farm in Creston, Calif. The gray gelding was 20.

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bob.mieszerski@latimes.com