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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. -- For more than a decade, owner Martin Schwartz has been buying French fillies to win Grade 1 turf races in America. The bloodstock agent Michel Zerolo finds them, Schwartz buys them, and the fillies cross the Atlantic to try to adapt and improve in a whole new racing system. Its no sure thing, this transition. How does it work so often for Schwartz?I have the right trainer, he said.That trainer is Chad Brown, and for the fourth time, Schwartz had the right horse for the Grade 1, $700,000 Beverly D., which he won Saturday with Sea Calisi. The victory was an emotional one for Schwartz. As Sea Calisi neared the winners circle, he pumped his fist in the air and yelled, Yeah! Thats four!Brown trails Schwartz by one in Beverly D. victories but has won the race two years in a row, taking the 2015 edition with Watsdachances. Brown and Schwartz teamed for the first time in the race with Stacelita in 2011, and Schwartz won his first two, with Gorella and Angara, before he had horses with Brown.Aboard Sea Calisi was Florent Geroux, who won the Beverly D. for the first time but seemed to win almost all the races on the Saturday card here. He won five in all, four graded stakes, two of them Grade 1s.I had a good trip, Geroux said. The pacemaker really helped her today. I was able to get over and save ground before the first turn, which was very important.Schwartz and Brown were leaving no stone unturned in the Beverly D. Sea Calisi looked like a Grade 1 horse, but she had never won such a race before Saturday, and in the Grade 2 New York last time, shed raced in a thicket of horseflesh through the homestretch and wound up a tough-luck second.That race was at 1-1/4 miles, and the Beverly D. is at 1-3/16, and Sea Calisi probably is more naturally a 1-1/2-mile horse, and so her connections entered a pacemaker, Elusive Million, who, after a slow start, was urged to the lead by jockey Julio Felix and carved out a fast pace for the distance, 23.71 and 47.68 seconds. That served to spread the field and gave Sea Calisi both more room to operate and a better pace dynamic for her stretch kick.We thought because it was a touch short for her, she needed an honest pace, and the plan came together, said Brown.Eleventh in the early and middle stages, Sea Calisi raced in the clear and near the fence at the half-mile pole before Geroux guided her outside on the far turn. He sat on the best horse in the race, had gotten the right setup, and only needed to decide when to pull the trigger. That moment came at the top of the stretch, where Sea Calisi surged mightily, passing most of the field before the stretch call, then moving to the lead in the final furlong.Als Gal, a 20-1 shot, put in a strong bid on the far outside, gaining on the winner over the final furlong before falling a half-length short.We just needed a few more feet, I guess, said trainer Mike Maker.Zipessa, who pressed the quick pace set by the rabbit and took the lead before the far turn, held on very well for third, 1-1/4 lengths behind Als Gal.Having the rabbit in there couldnt have helped, but she ran really well today, said trainer Mike Stidham.Tuttipaesi finished fourth, and Faufiler was fifth, while the two Aidan OBrien-trained 3-year-olds made no impression, with second choice Coolmore 10th and third choice Ballydoyle 12th.Sea Calisi, who was 2-5 early in the betting, paid $4.20 as the heavy favorite and was timed in 1:54.93 for 1-3/16 miles over firm turf.Florent kept her out of trouble and did what he was supposed to do, and she did what she was supposed to do, said Brown. Shes a really, really nice filly and should be undefeated over here stateside with some trouble last time.The 4-year-old Sea Calisi is by the Irish horse Youmzain and out of a German family, her dam a daughter of the stallion Surumu. She had a good overseas record, winning twice in seven starts, and was a Group 2 winner with a third-place finish in the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks. Sea Calisi won the Sheepshead Bay in her U.S. debut before her tough loss in the New York. Brown said she was likely to make her next start in the Grade 1 Flower Bowl at Belmont.Schwartz had been stewing on the tough New York beat for weeks now, and he felt the pressure of starting a heavy favorite Saturday.Its very difficult to see your horse at a price like that, to be odds-on from the 13 hole, he said. You worry about traffic problems, and youre in the parking lot to start. Its just so much relief, I cant begin to tell you.Its surprising Schwartz had any concern at all. 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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Colin Kaepernick did not throw the football for a second straight day at practice for the San Francisco 49ers as he deals with tightness in his throwing shoulder.Kaepernick handed the ball off four times in his one team drill and spent the rest of the time shadowing San Franciscos quarterbacks during a joint practice Friday against the Houston Texans in advance of the exhibition opener Sunday.The extremely limited practice came a day after Kaepernick got a scheduled day off to rest his shoulder as he works his way back from three offseason surgeries that prevented him from practicing during the offseason program.I think its been a buildup, Kaepernick said. You dont really get the reps of live action and that violent motion when youre practicing in the offseason. I think its just building my endurance in that area.The missed time comes in the middle of a quarterback competition between Kaepernick and Blaine Gabbert. The two had been splitting time with the first-team offense before Gabbert got all the time with the starters the past two days.Gabbert, who took over as starter from Kaepernick midway through last season, is expected to start Sundays game although coach Chip Kelly has yet to make an official announcement on his starter.When the quarterback is on the field, hes the guy, Gabbert said. Thats how I approach every day, as if Im the starter. Go out there and put my best foot forward and let my play speak for itself and lead the team.Kaepernick regretted having to miss practice time, especially the opportunity to go up against another defense. But he knows the larger goal of being healthy for the start of the regular season still remains.He compared the current tightness in his shoulder to the feeling he had sometimes as a pitcher at the start of the season and said he usually bounces back quickly.ddddddddddddaepernick said he plans to play in Sundays game and also expects to get a start this preseason and time with the first-team offense before Kelly chooses a starting quarterback for the regular season.From everything hes told me, were both getting a fair shot, Kaepernick said.Kaepernick tried to make the most of the practice on Friday by dropping back behind the quarterback, surveying the defense and figuring out where he would throw the ball if he were the quarterback.Its not as valuable as taking actual practice snaps but it is still helpful.You get a chance to look at the defense live even though youre a little bit further back, not quite in the action, he said. You still get to see the defense live and their reaction and walk through plays mentally as far as where you want to go with the ball and the adjustments youll have to make.Kaepernick did the same during offseason practices and those mental plays have eased his adjustment to a new offense.There havent been a lot of mental mistakes, Kelly said. A lot of times, guys ability to transfer things that theyve learned in the classroom and then be able to take that out onto the field is a different thing. You can tell how intelligent he was that he was on top of things so when he got in there, he was getting to his third read in his progression even though he had actually never thrown the route, but mentally he had taken himself through that in the springtime.---Online:AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '