Rosario guides Cajun Treasure to maiden-breaking score on Santa Anita grass

If there’s any rider in the country who can orchestrate a stretch run to perfection it’s Joel Rosario, and that’s exactly what happened with Cajun Treasure at Santa Anita yesterday. Rosario got away third with the 4-year-old Treasure Beach colt in a $55,000 maiden special at “about” 6 1/2 furlongs over the downhill turf course.

They tracked 2 to 3 lengths behind the pacesetters until Rosario set his colt down in the stretch and Cajun Treasure did the rest, getting up in the shadow of the wire to win by a head, clocked in 1:13.61. The maiden victory by the $250,000 OBS April colt was worth $33,000 as he became his sire’s ninth winner of 2019. Cajun Treasure is 1-1-1 in five starts, with two fourths, and his earnings jumped to $57,180.