El Conejo

Areyoutalkintome earned his first graded win Sunday (Benoit Photo)

Ron Manzani & Russell Sarno's AREYOUTALKINTOME (Smokester) raced with the

pace in between Woke Up Dreamin (Holy Bull) and Hombre Rapido (Falstaff) in

Sunday's $110,500

El Conejo H. (G3) at Santa Anita, before asserting himself in

the stretch and pulling away to record a 1 3/4-length victory. The trio traveled

through splits of :21 1/5, :43 4/5 and :56 in the 5 1/2-furlong wet fast track

test, but it was Aryoutalkintome and jockey Tyler Baze who set the final time of

1:02 2/5.

Sent off at 9-2 in the nine-horse field, Areyoutalkintome paid out $11.80,

$5.20 and $4. Hombre Rapido moved up along his outside position to take second

by 1 1/2 lengths over Woke Up Dreaming, returning $5 and $4 at 7-2. Show gave

back $4 while the exotics were worth $24.20 for the exacta ($1) and $214.20 for

the trifecta ($1). Revello (Memo [Chi]) finished the 5-8-4-1 superfecta ($1)

that paid $674.60, and next under the line came McCann's Mojave (Memo [Chi]),

Don'tsellmeshort (Benchmark), Day Trader (Phone Trick), Britt's Jules (Jules)

and Bluesthestandard (American Standard).

Trained by Doug O'Neill, Aryoutalkintome was making his graded debut in this

one and improved his mark to 15-6-5-3 and $349,292 in earnings with the victory.

Prior to Sunday's score, the four-year-old gelding already owned scores in the

California Cup Sprint H. and Real Good Deal S.

Bred in California by John Toffan & Trudy McCaffery, Areyoutalkintome brought

$10,000 as a Barretts October yearling. He is the first registered foal out of

Andrea Gail (Storm Bird) and has an unnamed juvenile half-brother by Smokester.