ROUNDUP: DOLLAR BILL SET FOR GOLD CUP.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services An important dollar has been added to the $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup The Hollywood Gold Cup is a Grade I stakes race for thoroughbred horses inaugurated in 1938 at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. It was run as a handicap race until 1997 when it was switched to weight-for-age conditions. . Dollar Bill, always a contender - though rarely a winner - in major Eastern and Midwestern races, will come to Hollywood Park Hollywood Park may be several places:
The plan was confirmed Sunday by trainer Dallas Stewart, who was happy with Dollar Bill's morning workout at Kentucky's Churchill Downs Churchill Downs, Ky.: see Louisville. , one-half mile clocked in 48 2/5 seconds. Dollar Bill is scheduled to arrive this afternoon on a flight from Louisville, Ky. Dollar Bill, a 4-year-old by Peaks and Valleys, has won four of 16 races and earned more than $1 million. But he is winless in nine starts at the stakes level since his victory in the Feb. 18, 2001 Risen Star Stakes The Risen Star Stakes is a race for thoroughbred horses run at the Fair Grounds Race Course each year. The race is open to three year olds willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. A Grade III, it offers a purse of $300,000. at the New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded Fair Grounds. In his latest try, he finished a distant second to Street Cry in the Stephen Foster Handicap The Stephen Foster Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run in mid June at the end of the Churchill Downs Spring Meet in Louisville, Kentucky. The Stephen Foster Handicap is run on the dirt at a distance of one and one-eighth miles. at Churchill after a bump at the start. Dollar Bill became a well-known hard-luck story when he suffered through impossibly rough trips under jockey Pat Day in all three Triple Crown races in 2001, finishing 15th in the Kentucky Derby and fourth in the Preakness and Belmont. ``I think sooner or later he's going to get one of these big ones,'' Stewart said. ``You've got to keep trying.'' Dollar Bill would be the fourth out-of-state-based horse to win the Hollywood Gold Cup in the past 11 years, joining Sultry Song (1992), Cigar (1995) and Skip Away (1998). His expected competition: Milwaukee Brew (Kent Desormeaux riding), Sky Jack (Laffit Pincay), Out of Mind (Eddie Delahoussaye), Momentum (Garrett Gomez) and Macaneo (to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. ). Entries and post positions will be set Thursday. - Kevin Modesti --Go Go goes: Go Go prevailed in a speed duel with Dyna's Club and won the $91,925 Great Lady M Handicap at Hollywood Park by a neck. Dyna's Club was another two lengths in front of Brocky's Dream in the field of seven 3-year-old fillies. --Ready for more: War Emblem is ready to race again, and trainer Bob Baffert said his Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner will make his return in the Haskell Invitational on Aug. 4 at Monmouth Park. ``This is the logical place for him,'' Baffert said. ``We'll run in the Haskell and then take it one race at a time.'' Baffert has said he'd like War Emblem to race two more times before 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 1ΒΌ 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. on Oct. 26 at Arlington Park. --Record tied: Mario Pino, top rider at Colonial Downs in New Kent, Va., the past three years, set a track record by winning a career-best seven races. |
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