Cal Cup

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$125,000 Budweiser Cal Cup Juvenile
TEXCESS

ARCADIA, Calif. (Oct. 16, 2004) – Texcess took the lead turning for home and pulled away to six-length maiden win in Saturday’s $125,000 Budweiser California Cup Juvenile at Oak Tree at Santa Anita.

Texcess is by In Excess, out of the Regal Classic mare Danish Alamode, was bred by Ron Gomez and is owned by Aldabbagh & Aguirre. The $85,000 Barretts purchase, in his only other start, finished second by a neck in the Barretts Juvenile Sept. 19. He is a half-brother to the stakes-placed Gimme the Willys.

Co-owner Paul Aguirre trains Texcess and Rene Douglas was the jockey.

“We bought him from the breeders, they’re very close friends of mine, and I send all of my horses to their barns and they just begged us, ‘Please buy this horse,’ ” said Aguirre. “They thought he was special from the day he was born.”

Said Douglas: “A couple times when I thought I had a lot of horse he kind of slowed down on me. But then he would just take off and I knew he was fooling with me.”

Texcess, sent off at odds of 3-1, ran the 1 1/16 miles in 1:44.02. Generalist was second and Tizmanian Devil was third. Morning-line favorite Top Money scratched. Conspirator finished last and had to be vanned off after being unsaddled.