Racing at Hollywood Park with Marc Doche: Wilshire favorites vulnerable to pair with upside

April 28, 2013

Four days into the meet and already the second Pick-6 carryover awaits. This time it’s three times bigger than what we saw on Friday, with over $120,000 already in a pool that could approach $1 million and includes the featured $100,000 Wilshire Handicap (Grade 3) for older females at a mile on turf. Stretching out [...]

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Racing at Hollywood Park with Marc Doche: Tiz a Minister preps for Kentucky Derby in Snow Chief

April 27, 2013

An afternoon on the last Saturday in April at Hollywood Park is not usually where you’ll find a Kentucky Derby hopeful starting, but such is the case with 7-to-5 morning line favorite Tiz a Minister in the $300,000 Snow Chief Stakes against seven other California-breds over 1 1/8-miles on Cushion Track. Tied with a trio [...]

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Racing at Hollywood Park with Marc Doche: Same last stand theme on opening day

April 25, 2013

Is this finally the beginning of the end? Again? The same question has been asked for what’s approaching a decade now as Hollywood Park’s future and the California racing schedule remains in limbo, but in the present we open the spring/summer meet with another card light on entries. However, the back side is reportedly over [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: San Juan caps crawl to finish

April 21, 2013

Last call to post for the current stand and the unsettling field size numbers continue with just six runners that have never won a turf stakes in the U.S. marathoning 1 ¾-miles on turf in the traditional closing day feature $150,000 San Juan Capistrano Handicap (Grade 2). Sky Kingdom makes his turf debut for Bob [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: Trying to beat Breeders’ Cup turfers

April 20, 2013

The penultimate day of the meet sees the long and short of it for older runners in graded stakes action on turf with females traveling 1 ¼-miles in the $150,000 Santa Barbara Handicap (G2) and males sprinting 6 ½-furlongs down the hill in the $100,000 San Simeon Stakes (G3). Ladies first in the Santa Barbara [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: Full feature inexplicably lands outside large Pick-6 carryover

April 19, 2013

Impossible results yesterday lead to the saving grace of a double Pick-6 carryover of $370,763 on an otherwise lack luster third to last day of the meet. The criticism the racing office has faced is only heightened today with the featured $25,000 allowance optional claimer at a mile on turf with eight Cal-bred females landing [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: Carryover state to begin closing week

April 18, 2013

Closing week is upon us and begins with an $80,000 allowance optional claimer at a mile on turf for three-year-old fillies that goes as the third leg of a Pick-6 sequence where there is a carryover of $85,262. In the evenly matched field of eight, tepid morning line favoritism goes to Pussycat Lips at 3-to-1 [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: Fondness for pair of 4-year-old fillies

April 14, 2013

After a blogging break due to unforeseen circumstances yesterday, the week closes in featured races up and down the cost with two of our favorite fillies stepping up to the biggest races of their careers. At Santa Anita, Maker Or Breaker makes her stakes debut as the 8-to-5 favorite in the $70,000 Santa Lucia Stakes [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: My Philly Girl’s style lands favorite’s role

April 12, 2013

Five females knocking on the door to break into stakes company and one that exits her debut in a stakes sprint 6 ½-furlongs on the main track in Friday’s featured second-level allowance with a purse of $60,000. The most lightly raced with just four starts under her belt, My Philly Girl is the 9-to-5 morning [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: Big names in star-studded maiden sprint

April 11, 2013

The penultimate week of racing at the meet begins with an intriguing maiden special weight heat for fillies sprinting six furlongs on the main track. As is often the case in these types of races, Bob Baffert plays an integral role with 5-to-2 second choice Tiz Midnight and 12-to-1 long shot Here’s to Rose making [...]

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