2011 Hollywood Turf Cup Making a bet at OTB
Las Vegas, NV — The highest race this weekend at Hollywood Park is the $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup on Saturday. A box of 7 is predicted, headlined via Sanagas and Bourbon Bay. The Hollywood Turf Cup would be the 8th race on a nine-race card.
Sanagas
Graham Movement’s Sanagas may just move off because the put up time favourite on Saturday. It’ll be the primary Grade 1 race for Sanagas, however all indications are that he’s going to be as much as the duty. The German-bred horse has received two of his 4 begins in america. He’ll get started from the out of doors and be ridden via Rajiv Maragh. The pony received the John’s Name Stakes again in July at Saratoga and likewise received the Grade 3 Sycamore Stakes at Keeneland final month.
“He hasn’t achieved an excessive amount of unsuitable,” Movement stated. “The primary few occasions I ran him, he was once fairly quirky, however he is gotten over that. He was once very erratic. Having been calmly raced in Germany, after which going a distinct course right here, I believe he was once a little bit puzzled.” The mile and a half of distance is probably not an issue for Sanagas.
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Bourbon Bay and Leave out Fit
Teacher Neil Drysdale will ship Leave out Fit and Bourbon Bay within the Hollywood Turf Cup on Saturday. Each horses had been disappointing final day trip as Bourbon Bay completed final within the Northern Dance Stakes at Woodbine in September whilst Leave out Fit was once final within the Breeders’ Cup Girls Vintage. This would be the 3rd time in her profession that Leave out Fit can be going through the men. She received the Santa Margarita Stakes again in March however has misplaced her final 5 begins since that win. Drysdale was once very inspired via a up to date paintings via Leave out Fit and made up our minds to go into her on this race. Leave out Fit gets jockey Mike Smith within the irons as the pony makes an attempt to transform the primary feminine in nearly twenty years to win the Hollywood Turf Cup.
Different Contenders
There are two different stakes winners within the having a bet box for Saturday. Ashtar received the El Derby in Chile in February whilst Norvsky received the California Cup Vintage final month. The opposite two horses within the race are Falcon Rock and Goldwaki. Norvsky can be operating in his first Grade 1 race and at an extended distance however instructor Don Warren isn’t involved.
“Together with his lengthy stride, we expect he can get the space,” Warren stated. Norvsky has completed first or 2nd in his final six begins. The hot button is, this units as much as be a heck of a having a bet race. A race the place you must make the most of the horse racing rebates at offtrackbetting.com.
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| Horse
| Jockey
| Teacher
|
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bourbon Bay | Garrett Gomez | Neil Drysdale |
2 | Norvsky | Rafael Bejarano | Don Warren |
3 | Falcon Rock | David Flores | Simon Callaghan |
4 | Leave out Fit | Mike Smith | Neil Drysdale |
5 | Goldwaki | Brice Blanc | Ron McAnally |
7 | Ashtar | Hector Berrios | Ruben Cardenas |
7 | Sanagas | Rajiv Maragh | Graham Movement |
Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes
The Hollywood Turf Cup is an American stakes race for thoroughbred horses at Hollywood Park Racetrack. A Grade I match, it’s open to horses, age 3 and up, and run at a distance of 1 and one-half miles. The Hollywood Turf Cup provides a handbag of $250,000.
Horses who prior to now ran within the Breeders’ Cup Turf regularly run within the Turf Cup since it’s the final primary turf race of the yr. As with any Hollywood Park turf stakes it was once on hiatus in 2005.
John Henry’s win in 1983 made him the primary racehorse to surpass $4 million in profession income. 1991 winner Leave out Alleged is the one filly to ever win this race.
The race was once run in two heats in 1982. It was once raced at 1 1/2miles (11 furlongs) in 1982 and 1983.
