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Originally Posted by King Glorious
It's a stigma that's hard to overcome. I consider El Gato Malo a Northern Cali horse even though two of his three races have been in Southern Cali. It's just interesting that a horse that won more races at Gulfstream, Churchill, Belmont, and Saratoga than in Northern Cali is still disparaged as only a Northern Cali horse.
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El Gato Malo has trained in SoCal throughout his career. I don't think anyone thinks of him as a horse from the Bay Area.
Until they started messing with the schedules (and Santa Anita revised the Santa Catalina from a restricted to a open, graded race), the El Camino Real Derby used to be one of the most productive races as far as Derby preps go.