Los Alamitos Super Derby

Bill Price's BP Cartel Policy sprinted to a neck victory in Sunday's Grade 1, $763,000 Los Alamitos Super Derby at Los Alamitos Racecourse.

The even-money favorite and the fastest qualifier from four trials run October 20, BP Cartel Policy went 400 yards in :19.614 while recording a 94 speed index. Armando Cervantes rode the homebred Favorite Cartel gelding for trainer Monty Arrossa.

“He stood at the gates good,” Cervantes said. “I was scared because he's not really a sharp breaker. This time he broke good and he started rolling. He did his job, passed the wire and got it done.”

BP Cartel Policy was bred in Oklahoma, and he was coming off of a 1 3/4-length win in the first of four Super Derby trials. The gelding is out of CC Policy, a homebred daughter of the Holland Ease stallion Corona Cartel and winner of the '07 Oklahoma Futurity (G3) at Remington Park. His second dam, the winning Reb's Policy (TB) mare Southern Policy, ran third in the 1987 Oil Capital Derby at Mt. Pleasant Meadows in Michigan.

BP Cartel Policy was winning for the seventh time in 14 races, and the $320,460 winner's share of the purse from his third graded stakes score boosted his earnings to $594,554, of which $503,102 has been pocketed from seven starts this season. Earlier this year, the gelding won the February 17, 400-yard Los Alamitos Winter Derby (G1), and the September 7, 400-yard Golden State Derby (G2). He also was a finalist in last year's Heritage Place Futurity (G1) at Remington Park.

Dark NME, the fourth-fastest qualifier and last year's champion 2-year-old filly, finished fourth, 1 3/4 lengths behind BP Cartel Policy.

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