HERRERA HOPING WINS KEEP ON COMING

          Apprentice jockey Diego Herrera enjoyed the best weekend of his riding career, as he opened the month of June by winning with four of his 10 starts to take his win total from 11 on the year to 15 victories. Herrera finished the week by winning the richest race of his young career when he piloted Secretly Paranoide to an allowance victory on Sunday night. Later that night, the jockey matched his richest win aboard a Quarter Horse when he guided Ed Allred’s Call It Close to an allowance score in the eighth and final race of the evening.  In addition to his four wins, Herrera finished second once and had three third place finishes, giving him eight in the money finishes from his 10 mounts.

          Herrera, who made his first riding appearance at Los Alamitos on February 21, will look to keep his momentum going on Friday night. The jockey has five mounts this evening, including a pair in Quarter Horse races to finish out the night. Around the turn, he will ride veteran four-time winner Hoss Cartwright in the third at 4 ½ furlongs and then recent Journey Cake in the fourth race also at 4 ½ furlongs. Herrera has twice piloted the Angela Aquino-trainee to victory. He will also ride Norma’s Love in the fifth when she looks to upset Elemental in a 2 ½ furlong race. Elemental has two recent victories at that distance, both by runaway margins.  

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