Victory came like clockwork for Mrs. Fitriani Hay’s Clock Tower Dec. 1 at Del Mar as the 2-year-old Not This Time gelding went gate-to-wire in the $101,000 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes (G3T).
Sent to the lead from the far outside gate in the seven-horse field, Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez established a clear lead within the opening sixteenth of the one-mile contest. Unchallenged throughout, Clock Tower set easy fractions of :23.62, :48.75, and 1:13.72.
As the 4-5 favorite showed the way, 8-5…
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