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Smiling Tiger Goes All The Way In Lazaro Barrera

Trainer Jeff Bonde and owners Alan Klein and Philip Lebherz picked up their second stakes win of the meet when Smiling Tiger captured the $100,000 Lazaro Barrera Memorial on Saturday at Hollywood Park. Bonde, Klein and Lebherz, winners of the Harry Henson on April 21 with longshot Excessive Passion a turf race in which Smiling Tiger was third in his 2010 debut saw the chestnut colt go wire-to-wire in the Grade III Barrera. Ridden to perfection by Victor Espinoza, the 3-year-old son of Hold That Tiger out of the Cahill Road mare Shandra Smiles broke quickly with the Bob Baffert trained duo of Concord Point and Macias in close proximity. Macias, shortening up in distance and switching to the main track after a pair of turf routes, had room to rally along the inside early in the stretch, but Espinoza tightened things up a bit. This seemed to intimidate Macias, who, ultimately, angled outside the winner, but faltered in the final sixteenth and had to settle for fourth. Concord Point, the 5-2 favorite, made another bid of his own approaching the wire, but Smiling Tiger, the 5-2 second choice, had enough left to prevail by a half-length. The final time for the seven furlongs was 1:21.34.