Santo Rey took advantage and had more air to win the Clásico Calidoscopio
- Turf Diario
- Feb 26
- 2 min read
With Rumor de Fuego (Forge), the candidate for everyone, absent, the race was reduced to an "allowance" affair, where the son of Santillano ended up overcoming the mare Playa Chopera
Among the only 5 entrants for the Clásico Calidoscopio (L-2,400 m, dirt), the central event of Wednesday at San Isidro, the only one with positive background in the rankings was Rumor de Fuego (Daddy Long Legs). For that reason, he deserved the top weight and a wide candidacy in the media. However, he was a non-starter and left the memory of the Doña Pancha champion reduced to a simple allowance race in terms of quality, matching a meeting full of "alternativa" races that, economically, left very little: $428,839,507 pesos in turnover for 13 races, with an average of $32,987,654, barely above what La Plata handled the day before.
Returning to the stakes, it did provide a vibrant finish, with 3 of the contenders fighting almost until the last jump for the victory—a luxury that Santo Rey (52 1/2) ended up enjoying. Coming off two fifth-place finishes in La Plata, he now added an important celebration to his campaign. At 5 years old, the son of the champion sprinter Santillano—bred by Miguel Benedit at his Haras Bayakoa, speaking of tributes...—ran almost the entire race in last place, though not far from what the mare Playa Chopera (Treasure Beach, 50) and Travel Pass (Fortify, 50 1/2) were proposing up front.
Once in the final straight, and after fractions of 25s3/100, 49s20/100, 1m14s58/100, and 1m39s41/100, Travel Pass faded away, and along the rails, Playa Chopera began to resist. Through the center, the favorite Poema Lírico (Forge, 52 1/2) tried to close in but never managed to break the leader's line; and on the outside, Juan Pablo Paoloni launched Santo Rey, who had a better finish and took control at the 100-meter mark. At the wire, there was a 1 1/2-length advantage for the winner over Playa Chopera, with Poema Lírico in third a half-neck away, all after a time of 2m31s91/100, in a finish where heart prevailed more than energy.
Santo Rey is a son of the very generous Forty Reina (Roar), who also produced the stakes winners Stormy Reinada(Bernstein) and Pure Real (Pure Prize), the G2-placed Reinaldo Sand (Footstepsinthesand), and the stakes-placed Burg Rein (Johannesburg) —the latter being the dam of the stakes winner Bayonne (Puerto Escondido)— and Reinado Inc (Include).
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