Horse racing: Vodka Vodka’s Cal Cup win is trainer’s latest sip of success

ARCADIA — Many fans here had to look up the name Aggie Ordonez when the trainer from Northern California came south and won her first stakes race and then her first graded stakes race last year with the filly Om N Joy. They’re less confused about who Ordonez is now that she continues to win big races this year with the gelding Vodka Vodka. “I feel like a mini-celebrity within the walls of Santa Anita,” Ordonez said with seeming astonishment in the Santa Anita winner’s circle after 5-year-old Vodka Vodka and jockey Kent Desormeaux won by a half-length in the $175,000 Unusual Heat Turf Classic, one of several popular victories by veteran horses on the annual California Cup card. The win in the...