FIVE TITLES, LOTS OF MONEY AT STAKE IN BIG STAKES.Byline: Kevin Modesti Daily News Staff Writer Hollywood Park Hollywood Park may be several places:
But when five titles are at stake on one program - four for horses and one for trainers - that adds up to a very strong afternoon of racing. Which is what Hollywood Park will hold today starting at noon. The six stakes races include the $500,000 Swaps for 3-year-olds, $400,000 Sunset Handicap The Sunset Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run each year at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Los Angeles, California. The race is open to horses, age three and up, willing to race one and one-half miles on the grass and offers a purse of $250,000. for turf specialists, $400,000 Vanity Handicap The Vanity Invitational Handicap is an American race for thoroughbred fillies and mares ages three and up first run in 1940. The Grade I stakes race is run at Hollywood Park Racetrack. Run at a distance of one and one-eighth miles, the race is a prep to the Breeders' Cup Distaff. for fillies and mares and the $100,000 Hollywood Juvenile Championship for 2-year-olds. The 1-1/8-mile Swaps puts the classy Free House, second or third in each Triple Crown race, against the sharp Deputy Commander, front-running winner of last month's Affirmed Handicap. The field includes Affirmed runner-up Hello and Illinois Derby The Illinois Derby is a race for Thoroughbred horses held in early April each year. First run in 1923, the Derby takes place at Hawthorne Race Course located in Stickney/Cicero, Illinois, just west of Chicago. winner Wild Rush. The 1-1/2-mile Sunset gives Marlin a chance to reverse his neck loss to 19-1 Rainbow Dancer in the 1-1/4-mile Hollywood Turf Handicap in May. The 1-1/8-mile Vanity has just five fillies and mares and boils down to two: Jewel Princess, who beat Serena's Song in this race last year, and Twice the Vice, who was two lengths ahead of Jewel Princess when they ran second and third in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of last month. The 6-furlong Hollywood Juvenile Championship has a large field of 10. The favorites: K.O. Punch, trained by D. Wayne Lukas Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935 in Antigo, Wisconsin) is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. , who has won this race five times; and Majorbigtimesheet. Jenine Sahadi, trainer of Rainbow Dancer and Majorbigtimesheet, had a good chance to win the Hollywood Park title until Mike Mitchell Mike Mitchell may refer to:
Sahadi has no horses entered on Monday, closing day of the 66-day season. Mitchell has two today, one Monday. Sahadi would be the first woman to win a share of a major thoroughbred training title in California. The track's equine championships will be determined in a press-box vote. Today's winners will go to the top of the polls. |
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