INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The racing week at Betfair Hollywood Park will begin Thursday with a pick-six carryover of $94,863.
Thursday’s pick six covers the third through eighth races, which do not feature large fields. The pick-six races begin with a $16,000 claimer for fillies and mares over seven furlongs that has seven runners, followed by a six-furlong maiden race on turf that has eight entrants.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Trainer Mike Puype equaled a track record when he saddled six consecutive winners from Thursday through Saturday at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Puype’s attempt to break the record ended when Moonlight Splitter finished 10th as a 5-1 shot in Sunday’s sixth race for turf maidens. The 46-year-old shares the record for the most consecutive wins at Hollywood Park with Allen Drumheller Sr., who won six straight races July 4-5, 1955.
“I expected to have a good week,” Puype said Sunday. “The entries were good, and they all had good trips.”
Lovely Syn, the undefeated New York-bred 3-year-old filly who suffered a career-ending injury at Belmont Park on Saturday, underwent successful surgery Sunday, and the hope is she can become a broodmare.
The surgery, to repair a fractured sesamoid bone in Lovely Syn’s left foreleg, was performed by Dr. Dean Richardson – who also worked on 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro – at the New Bolton Center in Pennsylvania.
There will be a pick-six carryover of $248,140 at Belmont Park on Wednesday after the wager wasn’t hit over the weekend.
There was a $71,684 carryover following Saturday’s card, and an additional $308,389 was wagered into the pool Sunday.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Doinghardtimeagain may revert to California-bred stakes after winning her graded-stakes debut in the $150,000 Hollywood Oaks on Saturday.
Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Sunday that Doinghardtimeagain is a candidate for the $200,000 Fleet Treat Stakes for California-bred 3-year-old fillies over seven furlongs at Del Mar on July 27. Another possible race for Doinghardtimeagain is the $300,000 Delaware Oaks over 1 1/16 miles at Delaware Park on July 13.
OCEANPORT, N.J. – Street Gem, disqualified from second in her previous start, had a clean trip Sunday as she got her first stakes victory in the $61,800 Revidere for 3-year-old fillies on turf at Monmouth Park.
Street Gem was dropped from second to fifth on Memorial Day in Monmouth’s Little Silver Stakes for interference in the stretch. She was uncharacteristically far back in the Little Silver and lacked a clear path when launching a bid.
Reverting to her normal style, Street Gem was right on the pace in the Revidere. That proved to be the winning trip.
Isn’t He Clever was a blowout winner of the $75,000 San Juan County Commissioners Handicap at SunRay Park in Farmington, N.M., on Sunday, leading throughout for a 16 3/4-length win.
Casa de Cambio, his uncoupled stablemate, finished second to give owners J. Kirk and Judy Robison and trainer Henry Dominguez a sweep of the race’s top two spots. The $2 exacta paid $21.40.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The two Grade 1 races at Betfair Hollywood Park on Saturday will have small fields.
As of Sunday, there were five probable starters for the $300,000 Shoemaker Mile on turf and five or six candidates for the $250,000 Triple Bend Handicap over seven furlongs on the synthetic main track.
The 2012 winners of both races are back this year.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Rosengold extended his streak of stakes wins to three in Sunday’s $74,670 Tsunami Slew at Betfair Hollywood Park, a race that featured a more desperate finish than his previous victories.
At Santa Anita in March, Rosengold won the Baffle Stakes for turf sprinters by a length and the Pasadena Stakes over a mile by a half-length. The Tsunami Slew was his first start since the Pasadena Stakes on March 29. Rosengold ($3.60) was fully extended to hold off a late surge by 2-1 Pure Loyalty, winning by a neck in the one-mile turf race for 3-year-olds.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Riding the River won the 111th running of the Grade 2 King Edward Stakes for the second year in a row under Todd Kabel at Woodbine on Sunday.
Riding the River ($4) stalked the leaders in fourth on the backstretch in the one-mile turf route and then made a three-wide bid into contention on the turn. He hit the front early in the stretch before holding off a determined Valentino Beauty to score by a head in 1:33.24 over ground that was upgraded to firm before the race.
