DEL MAR — Segesta capped an eventful closing day at Del Mar Sunday by winning the Grade I Matriarch, giving East Coast trainer Chad Brown three wins in three starts during the season-ending, two-day Turf Festival.

But the trainer and 4-year-old daughter of Ghostzapper were far from the only winners as the challenging 12th fall meeting ended under sunny skies.

-Umberto Rispoli (jockey) and George Papaprodromou (trainer) each claimed their first Del Mar titles by teaming for a win in the same race. Rispoli rode the Papaprodromou prepared My Kat ($7.20) to victory in the fourth.

Rispoli finished with 17 wins, three more than runnerup Antonio Fresu. Mirco Demuro finished third with 12 wins on just 49 rides. Papaprodromou had 11 wins to nine for John Sadler and eight apiece for Doug O’Neill

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