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VOL. 15, N0. 19
SEPT. 13, 2019
DMTC sees safety moves have impact
Guilty plea 31 years after RSF shooting
By Lexy Brodt
Man shot friend over woman, went on lam
DEL MAR — With zero horse deaths or serious injuries during racing this summer, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club is calling its 80th season’s safety levels “unprecedented.” The racetrack has seen a gradual decline in the number of horse deaths since 2016, when Del Mar witnessed 23 horse fatalities. Since 2016, Del Mar has been rated among the country’s safest horse racing venues, with 0.79 horse deaths per 1,000 starts in 2018. Four horses died this season during training. Two died in what has been referred to as “a freak accident” — a head-on collision between two horses that caused immediate death. The two others were euthanized after incurring injuries during morning training. TURN TO DMTC ON 7
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Mark your calendars for the annual Wavecrest, the granddaddy of all Woodie meets, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 21 at Moonlight Beach in the parking lot at Third and C Streets in Encinitas. There will be 150 woodies of every size, shape, description on display. Enjoy live bands, vendors, food, prizes and awards throughout the day. Photo via Facebook
‘Surreal’: Encinitas skateboarder first to land aerial 1260 By Jacob Aere
ENCINITAS — Although Tom Schaar landed the first 1080 during March 2012, Mitchell “Mitchie” Brusco wasn’t far behind in landing the trick. The then 16-year-old Brusco landed the 1080 — three aerial revolutions — in X Games Barcelona 2013 just two months after Schaar first performed the trick. Encinitas’ Brusco now has his solo spot in history as he successfully completed the first ever 1260 — three and a half aerial rotations — on a skateboard during the Big Air
event at the X Games Minneapolis 2019 on Aug. 3. “It was a different level of focus that genuinely I’m not really quite used to,” Brusco said of the Brusco record-breaking aerial spin. “Rarely there’s something that’s that scary and important for me.” Brusco, 22, completed the 1260 after just four previous attempts during the summer of 2019.
After coming short on the trick twice at the X Games Shanghai 2019, he failed two more attempts in Minnesota before landing his third try. “I was almost in disbelief. Once I landed it was surreal,” Brusco said. Legendary North County skater Tony Hawk was the first person to ever land a 900 after he completed the spin during the 1999 Summer X Games. He tweeted a video of Brusco completing the 1260 with a caption stating, “I’m speechless.”
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Brusco’s full run with the 1260 ultimately propelled him to win the silver medal at the X Games Minneapolis 2019. To date, the skating prodigy has 10 X Games medals: one gold, four silver, and five bronze. Brusco debuted at the X Games in 2011 as a 14-year-old athlete. He became the third skateboarder to land a 900 in a Big Air contest, and in 2013 he became the second skater ever to land a 1080 on the MegaRamp event at the X-Games. TURN TO SKATEBOARDING ON 3
RANCHO SANTA FE — A man who shot his friend three times in the back over a woman, then fled to Mexico and remained on the lam for three decades, pleaded guilty Sept. 5 to assault with a firearm causing great bodily injury. Simon Mayo, 58, is due to be sentenced next month to nine years in state prison for the Dec. 12, 1988, shooting of Jose Hernandez in Rancho Santa Fe. Mayo fired at least five times on Hernandez, who suffered three gunshot wounds, Deputy District Attorney Keith Watanabe said. The shooting took place outside a residence on Luna de Miel. Mayo remained a fugitive until authorities caught up with him in Austin, Texas, last Dec. 11, one day short of the 30-year anniversary of the shooting. Prosecutors said Mayo and the victim were both vying for the affections of the same woman, whom Mayo married sometime afterward. Watanabe said, “After 30 years of waiting for justice, (Hernandez) was pleased to know that defendant admitted his guilt.” Under the plea agreement, an attempted murder charge will be dismissed at sentencing, currently set for Oct. 3.
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