PARK HAS GOOD TRACK RECORD.Byline: Kevin Modesti Staff Writer On a pleasant Saturday in mid-November 2002, the fewer than 8,000 fans who attended a seemingly lackluster Moccasin moccasin, in footwear moccasin, skin shoe worn by indigenous people of North America, excepting the sandal wearers of the Southwest area. There were two general types of moccasins, the hard-soled, which was used in the Eastern woodlands and the Southeast Stakes program at Hollywood Park Hollywood Park may be several places:
The little-fancied colt was Ghostzapper, who went on to win the Breeders' Cup Classic The Breeders' Cup Classic is a Grade 1 Weight for Age thoroughbred horse race for 3 years old and older run at a distance of 1¼ miles (2012 m) on dirt. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup. in race-record time Saturday at Lone Star Park Lone Star Park is a horse racing track located in Grand Prairie, Texas. History Lone Star Park opened in 1997. The track offers separate meets for Thoroughbred racing and Quarter Horse racing. In October of 2002, Magna Entertainment Corp. near Dallas and become a contender for Horse of the Year. Hollywood Park, which opens its 36-day fall meet at 12:30 p.m. today, counts on such brushes with celebrity to warm its heart during the major- racing chill between the racing year's climactic Breeders' Cup The Breeders' Cup World Championships is an annual series of Grade I thoroughbred horse races operated by Breeders' Cup Limited, a company formed in 1982 by a consortium of North American racing organizations, led by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. and the much-anticipated Santa Anita winter season. The Inglewood track was encouraged Sunday when the owners of Singletary, the Breeders' Cup Mile winner named for former Chicago Bears linebacker Mike Singletary, said the colt might make his next start in the Nov. 27 Citation Handicap. If Singletary does compete in the $400,000 Citation, a 1 1/16-mile turf race that's part of Hollywood Park's Nov. 26-28 Turf Festival, he'll be the first Breeders' Cup champion to run at the track's ensuing fall meet since 1991 Breeders' Cup Turf The Breeders' Cup Turf is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race on turf for three-year-olds and up. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup. The race's current title sponsor is John Deere. upsetter Miss Alleged won the 1991 Hollywood Turf Cup. Generally, it's less likely that fans at the Hollywood fall meet will see an established star than that they'll see a star in the making. Looking through the past-performance charts for the runners in the eight Breeders' Cup races last weekend, there are 13 who had run at least once at a Hollywood fall meet, including Ghostzapper, Classic fifth-place finisher Azeri (an allowance-level winner in 2002), and Distaff also-rans Elloluv and Island Fashion (the Hollywood Starlet star·let n. 1. A small star. 2. A young film actress publicized as a future star. starlet Noun a young actress who has the potential to become a star Noun 1. winners in 2002-03). The meet begins today with an eight-race card that has no stakes feature. The most interesting race, the sixth, finds Belleski and jockey Corey Nakatani favored in a field of 10 fillies and mares going 1 1/16 miles on turf for a $50,000 allowance purse. Kevin Modesti, (818) 713-3616 heymodesti(at)aol.com CAPTION(S): box Box: HOLLYWOOD PARK AT A GLANCE |
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