ARCADIA — Phil D’Amato clinched the Santa Anita autumn season trainers title while Juan Hernandez added a flourish to his jockeys title by completing a sweep of the track’s three stakes closing weekend.
Hernandez rode Warming (who paid $12.40) to a 1-3/4-length victory for trainer Graham Motion in the $100,000 Autumn Miss Stakes turf mile for 3-year-old fillies on Sunday after winning with Test Score for Motion and Privman for Bob Baffert on Saturday.
It’s the ninth time leading the standings at a Santa Anita meet for Hernandez, who ended up with 28 wins, nine ahead of Umberto Rispoli.
D’Amato won once Sunday to finish with 13 victories, two more than Bob Baffert. It’s D’Amato’s eighth title at a Santa Anita meet, going back to 2016, but his first in a fall season.
“Our whole plan this year was to have a strong second half of the year, and it’s looking to work that way right now,” D’Amato said.
Thoroughbreds move to Del Mar, which opens a month-long meet Thursday and hosts the Breeders’ Cup Friday and Saturday.
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