Hollywood Park card adds to the challenge for bettors
Horseplayers who want to catch every race at Churchill Downs and Hollywood Park are in for a long day.
The first race on the Breeders’ Cup card at Churchill Downs is the $200,000 Very Subtle, a six-furlong affair for older fillies and mares, starting locally at 8:15 a.m.
Hollywood Park’s final race is a $25,000, six-furlong claimer for 10 older maidens. Post time is 5:15 p.m., making for a nine-hour day. In between, there will be 10 races from Churchill and nine from Hollywood Park, besides others from Aqueduct, Bay Meadows, Hawthorne, Laurel, Turf Paradise and Woodbine.
The first live race is scheduled for 10:30 a.m., meaning some of the Hollywood Park races will be run in between the Breeders’ Cup events, which is a change from how things worked when the Breeders’ Cup was run during the Oak Tree meet.
Oak Tree ran a live race or two, then waited until the Breeders’ Cup was completed before resuming its card.
With ESPN now televising the Breeders’ Cup instead of NBC, there will be more time between races and, to fill the gap, races from Hollywood Park and Bay Meadows will be alternated between the Breeders’ Cup races.
The main event at Hollywood Park today is the $100,000 Real Quiet, an ungraded race for 2-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles. Named in honor of the 1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, the Real Quiet serves as a prep for the $250,000 Hollywood Futurity on Dec. 16.
Liquidity, a son of two-time Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Tiznow, is among the six scheduled to run in the Real Quiet. Owned by J. Paul Reddam and trained by Doug O’Neill, he will be making his first start around two turns after being thrown to the wolves in the Champagne, a Grade I, Oct. 14 at Belmont Park.
He finished ninth, beaten by 18 1/2 lengths, 17 days after debuting with a sprint win at Santa Anita. He will be ridden by Alex Bisono.
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Captain Squire, who was pulled up as the even-money favorite when he bled in the seventh race Wednesday at Hollywood Park, has been retired.
The 7-year-old Flying Chevron gelding, owned by Bob Bone and Jeffrey Diener and trained by Jeff Mullins, finished his career with nine wins in 35 starts and earnings of more than $1.3 million. His most significant win: the 2005 Ancient Title Breeders’ Cup, a Grade I, about 13 months ago at Santa Anita.
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