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DEL MAR, Calif. -- In a race run in wet and windy conditions, Journey Home overcame 12 rivals and some debris that blew onto the turf course when capturing the Grade 3, $102,760 Jimmy Durante Stakes for 2-year-old fillies on Saturday at Del Mar.The result of the Durante was declared official by stewards Grant Baker, Scott Chaney, and Kim Sawyer after deliberating whether to declare the race a no contest after several runners had to alter course into the first turn to dodge foam drain covers that littered the turn near the 6-1/2-furlong mark.We didnt think it was appropriate to make it a no contest, Chaney said.Had the race been declared a no contest, all wagers would have been refunded, and no purse money would have been paid out, per California Horse Racing Board rule 1544(c).Rule 1544(b) says the race can be declared no contest if mechanical failure or interference during the running of the race affects the majority of horses in such race.A, we think the reading of the rules didnt allow for it, and, B, we didnt think it was appropriate, Chaney said.The covers are used over drains near the inside of the turf-course rail to protect riders or horses in case of an accident in which they would go over the inner rail. But in this case, they nearly caused harm by blowing onto the course. All 13 runners got through it, but it was a wild first turn, with many horses altering course. The word debris is used in the official chart footnotes in reference to eight of the 13 runners.That was the wildest race Ive ever been in. Holy crap, said Drayden Van Dyke, who rode Journey Home ($17.80).Journey Home trailed in the initial going of the one-mile grass race, and Van Dyke said he was able to avoid the problem when he saw those in front of him scatter.I was behind everyone and saw some of them go out, he said. Being in the back, it turned out to be a great spot.Journey Home gradually gained ground on the leaders throughout the race, surged to the front inside the furlong pole, and drew off to win by 1-1/4 lengths. Defiant Honor, who set the early pace, held second, a neck better than 2-1 favorite With Honors.Miss Sugars, Simmys Temple, Bella Luma, Happy Mesa, Tiburtina, Movette, How About Zero, Noble Dancer, La Force, and Partyinthepaddock completed the order of finish.Defiant Honor and With Honors were among those most impacted by the debris, for they had to drift out to avoid it since they were the first to arrive on the scene.Journey Home completed one mile in 1:38.24. The turf was rated firm but was downgraded to good for the Grade 2 Seabiscuit later in the card as rain continued to fall.Graham Motion trains Journey Home, a daughter of War Front who is owned by Sam-Son Farm. She won her only prior start at Laurel. http://www.eaglesrookiestore.com/Eagles-Jaylen-Watkins-Jersey/ . 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With the amount of money given to players by their clubs these days, it is a wonder that so many of those teams allow the sport to continue to take away many of their assets so they can play for a different team in the middle of their season. KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii -- Theres never a good time to get hit by a car while riding your bike. But three days before the Ironman World Championship, when youre the defending champion, is a particularly bad time.Yet thats exactly what happened to Australian Mirinda Carfrae last year. The three-time world champion and course record holder was biking through the busy downtown in Kona when a car pulling into a parking lot hit her.There were people stopping and looking. The lady who hit me knew who I was. She was crying, and Im trying to hold it together, then Im crying, Carfrae, 35, said in an interview this week. So Carfrae just got out of there, kept riding, and it seemed like everything was going to be OK.She started the race anyway. Of course she did. She had spent her whole year preparing for it.She made it through the swim, but right away, she struggled to maintain any kind of power on the bike, with her hip, glute and shoulder still in pain from the accident. She found herself slowly slipping farther and farther behind. And not even halfway through, she stopped, quit and climbed into a sponsors car.It was probably a good month of just sadness, she said of the aftermath. But it comes along with all this, when you care so much about something and you put so much into it.And knowing that I had to wait a whole other year to get back here.It was devastating, said Carfraes coach, Siri Lindley, herself a world champion at the Olympic distance back in 2001.The two have worked together for nearly 11 years. That means they know each other very well. And what they eventually decided was that there were two upsides to Carfraes crash and DNF -- both of which they think will ultimately help her as she goes for another Ironman world title this Saturday.One upside to the accident was that Carfraes husband, Tim ODonnell, had a breakthrough that same day, taking third in the mens race and finishing as the first American. Carfrae was at the finish line to greet him, something she could not have done had she still been racing.I got to be there for him, and hes always there for me [at the finish], she said.The other upside is a little more abstract. Carfrae, whos been racing triathlons for 16 years, has been at the Ironman World Championship in Kona every year since 2009. Shes won three times and placed in the top three six times. Shes one of the most consistent racers in the famously brutal conditions. (A 2.4-mile ocean swim, 112 hot and humid miles on the bike, and then a marathon run through lava fields.)Its hard to keep the fire burning through all those years, so Lindley and Carfrae had talked about taking a year off from the world championship and using that time to build up a longer training block, without the stress of such a tough race on the body.Last year wasnt necessarily supposed to be that off year, but they got the break they were looking for anyway.Lets assume it happened for something greater ahead, Lindley said. Maybe this year was supposed to be the year to take off, but we just didnt get the message.Looking back now on last year, leading into the race I certainly didnt feel as excited as I had previously or I did this year, Carfrae said. Being forced to not finish the race might have been a blessing. She laughs. Well, well see what happens.And its not like Carfrae spent the last 364 days just brooding and crying. Sure, she spent some time doing that, but then she got on with things.First up, a few weeks after the race, was a team meeting.dddddddddddd Carfrae, Lindley, ODonnell and ODonnells coach, Mark Allen, met at the couples house in Boulder, Colorado, to hash out a plan for how both the triathletes could find a way to excel in the same sport and at the same race. In 2014, ODonnell had a terrible race and Carfrae won. The next year, Carfrae had the accident and felt worn out going into the event, but ODonnell had a great race.After five bottles of wine, the four of them had worked out all the details of how both athletes could succeed -- down to exactly where the two were going to stay in Hawaii and when they were going to get there. (They flew in separately this year so Carfrae could get to Kona a few days earlier.)Once that was settled, Carfrae got back to training and, most important, to having fun. I wanted to freshen things up, Lindley said. During the winter, Carfrae focused on short and fast training, and on different kinds of workouts. She and ODonnell went to the Bahamas for the unique Island House Triathlon, an event that pits Olympic racers against Ironman champions over multiple days.Then, in June, she raced Ironman Austria, where she won in a course record of 8:41.She wasnt sure [about Ironman Austria], because wed been doing so much differently, but I knew it was going to be great, Lindley said.This year has been more low-key than the ones following Carfraes 2013 and 2014 wins. Shes had fewer demands on her time and fewer sponsor and media obligations pulling her in every direction. In the triathlon community, shes largely taken a back seat to the woman who won in Carfraes absence last year: Switzerlands Daniela Ryf.Ryf had an amazing 2015. In August, two months before winning Kona, she won the 70.3 (half-Ironman) world championship. She went undefeated in eight races last year and won the Nasser Bin Hamad Triple Crown series -- which included a $1 million prize.But this year most of the triathlon press outlets have picked Carfrae as this weekends likely winner, primarily on the basis of Ryfs exhausting racing schedule, which included back-to-back Ironman races earlier this summer. On Saturday, though, Carfrae will inevitably be far behind Ryf after the swim and bike (Carfraes weaker events) and will have to make up time in the marathon, which can be challenging. Plus there are a lot of other women waiting to pounce if they have the opportunity.Carfrae is determined not to give them that opportunity. Shes being extra careful this week and will likely have a motor-scooter escort as she bikes out of town. Shes also going in with the goal of not necessarily winning -- you can never predict what will happen in Kona -- but having her best race ever.Basically, Ive had two years of preparation for this race, she said. And all that work isnt going to go to waste.This is her eighth year coming to Kona, her eighth year of preparation. Shes seen other competitors come and go, and she knows what it takes to win. She also knows shes going to take a year off soon so the couple can start a family. But, in the meantime, shes still having fun.Its triathlon, its sports. S--- happens, Carfrae said. Besides that one day, the rest of this past year has been good to her. She and ODonnell are healthy, fit and happy. They built a new house; they traveled. They get to do what they love. I cant complain, she said. 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