j Shoemaker's 8000th winner
I NZPA Los Angeles ' The champion jockey, Bill ■Shoemaker, reached the 'BOOO-winner mark in the i first race at Hollywood Park lon Thursday and went on to I ride three more winners, a ! second and a third in the . nine-race programme. “Well, some days they come in bunches like this, what can I say?” Shoemaker said.
His mount -had just won the $53,000 Happy Issue I Stakes for fillies and mares, 'feature race of the afternoon i programme. He won the first with War Allied, the favourite, and also brought home Eagle Toast in the fifth and Shamgo in the seventh.
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