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May 26, 2026 — Thought Process became a newly minted Grade I winner Monday at Santa Anita when rolling to a comfortable 2 ¾-length victory as the favorite in the $300,000 Gamely Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles on turf.

Thought Process is trained by Phil D’Amato for owners Estate of Brereton C. Jones, Little Red Feather Racing and Madaket Stables. The late Brereton C. Jones, former governor of Kentucky, bred the 4-year-old filly by Collected. For D’Amato, this was his second time winning the Gamely. He also won it in 2023 with Macadamia. “I thought we were in a really good position and I could see she was nice and comfortable,” D’Amato said. “I could see the horse on the lead (Rashmi) was also going very easy. When Hector asked her in the stretch, she responded and opened up. It was a hand ride from there.”

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Oct 27, 2025 — Phil D’Amato clinched the Santa Anita autumn season trainers title while Juan Hernandez added a flourish to his jockeys title by completing a sweep of the track’s three stakes closing weekend.

D’Amato won once Sunday to finish with 13 victories, two more than Bob Baffert. It’s D’Amato’s eighth title at a Santa Anita meet, going back to 2016, but his first in a fall season.

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June 1, 2025 — Making her first start since September, Super Shine went to the lead under Hector Berrios and fended off a late challenge from odds-on favorite Chismosa to earn her first stakes win in Sunday’s $100,000 Desert Stormer Stakes for fillies and mares going six furlongs at Santa Anita.

“We were originally putting her in here to just kind of give her a race and get her ready for Del Mar,” D’Amato said. “I’ve got to give credit to my crew at Los Alamitos…they all work really hard and did a lot of gate work with her. She broke right on top today and didn’t look back. She is a nice quality filly and hopefully we will have some fun with her the rest of the year.”

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