Apprentice rider Serafin Carmona gets stakes double and wins five races
It was an evening of multiple wins for trainers, owners and jockeys Saturday during Canterbury Park’s Hall of Fame Night. Hall of Fame trainer Mac Robertson won five races including three of the five featured handicaps. Apprentice jockey Serafin Carmona, who began his riding career at Canterbury in 2023, won his first stakes when Xavey Dave, trained by Robertson, won the $40,000 Ralph Strangis. Carmona had already won two races earlier on the card. He followed the Ralph Strangis with his fourth win on the eight-race card with Cupids Crush, also a Robertson trainee, in the $40,000 Mr. Dale Filly & Mare Turf. Cupids Crush paid $8.60 to win, the largest price on a predictable night. Carmona closed out the card with his fifth win aboard favorite Firenspice for trainer Stetson Rushton.
Robertson’s wins included Wynn Trip in the first race; Mister Muldoon in the third; Xtreme Diva in the fourth, the $40,000 Frances Genter followed by Xavey Dave and Cupids Crush. The first four winners were each the wagering favorite. Carmona was also aboard Wynn Trip and Mister Muldoon while Eduardo Gallardo rode Xtreme Diva owned by Vicki and Mike McGowan’s Xtreme Racing Stables, LLC. Xtreme Racing also own Mister Muldoon and Cupids Crush.
“At the end of the day, it ain’t about us,” Mike McGowan said. “It’s all the trainers; all the jockeys…all the people on the backside, that’s where the success comes.”
Gallardo had two other wins on the program. Street Warrior cruised to an easy nine length win in the $40,000 Victor S. Myers for trainer Joel Berndt and owner/breeder Suzanne Stables. The 3-year-old tracked stablemate Frosty View up the backstretch and around the turn of the six furlong sprint before striding by effortlessly and drawing away. He paid $3.60 as the favorite.
Street Warrior won his first start June 15 by 14 1/4 lengths and has now earned $43,800. “He’s a good one. He showed it in his works before he ever ran,” Berndt said. “He’s very intelligent. He just does things with ease.”
Gallardo then won the fourth race, also for Berndt, on Midnight Current who won the $40,000 Minnesota Turf Distaff for the third consecutive season.
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