2011 Matriarch (G1)

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Date/Track:
11/25/2011, Betfair Hollywood Park
Post Time:
4:40 PM PT
Distance:
1 mile (Turf)
Age/Sex:
3+ F
Time:
1:35.45

What the Nation is saying about the 2011 Matriarch (G1)...

Once all the leftovers have been put away and the relatives have headed home, it's time to pad that holiday shopping fund...Read More
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  • notobsessed · Great way to spend a weekend...watching horses die · 183 days ago ·
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  • travel_vic · we appear to have benn infiltattated by PETA....Used to have these idiots down by the gate yelling at the assistant starters...Several screws loose · 183 days ago ·
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Star Billing capped off a big day for John Shirreffs when she captured the Grade 1 Matriarch at Hollywood Park on Friday. Read More
  • BrianZipse · Exciting finish ... all of the top three ran well, but it was nice to see Star Billing get her first big win. · 185 days ago ·
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It's all about the 3yo's in the Matriarch, as Star Billing nips Summer Soiree. 
How a longshot result at the Breeders' Cup generated a heavy favorite in Canada's race for 2011 Horse of the Year.Read More
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  • atamulonis · Never Retreat and Inglorious...those are two names that had slipped to the back of my mind in recent weeks. I do believe Never Retreat definitely has made a good case for consideration in the Eclipse Awards. Thank you for pointing that out because I had sure forgotten about her. · 199 days ago ·
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  • hitmangolf · Never Retreat would be the first Eclipse Award winner in that division not to win a $500k stakes race all year · 185 days ago ·
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I'm not sure which I'm more excited about today, the Clark or the Matriarch!
Friday’s Pick 6 from Hollywood Park includes two flat mile graded turf races. First up is the G3 Miesque for 2-year-old fillies and overseas invader Island Paradise looks live against a less than stellar US group. In the G1 Matriarch, morning line favorite Never Retreat shoots for her sixth graded t...Read More
Never Retreat, with designs on an Eclipse Award, exercised on the turf course Wednesday for the $250,000 Matriarch Stakes Friday, a Grade I test for fillies and mares at one mile on grass.   “She just galloped and stretched her legs once around,” said Arthur Coontz, assistant to trainer Chris B...Read More
Gypsy’s Warning will try to become only the second repeat winner when she faces eight opponents in the $250,000 Matriarch Friday at Hollywood Park. Read More
Trainer Chris Block said Sunday that Never Retreat will make her final start in the $250,000 Matriarch Stakes Friday, and he hopes that a victory in the Grade I test for fillies and mares at one mile on turf will strengthen her case for an Eclipse Award.   “I think she deserves consideration,” ...Read More
A Tex Sutton flight is scheduled to deliver several Eastern horses Monday for Turf Festival races at Hollywood Park Friday through Sunday.   The flight will pick up horses in New York and Kentucky, including multiple stakes winner Never Retreat for the $250,000 Matriarch Friday and highly regar...Read More
Trainer H. Graham Motion vanned Sanagas from his Fair Hill, Md., training base Thursday to Newark to be flown to California for the $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup at Hollywood Park Saturday.   Sanagas, a 5-year-old German-bred gelding, will be accompanied by assistant Alice Clapham and stabled in ...Read More
A batch of $5,000 supplementary entries were received by the racing office Thursday for the Grade I Hollywood Derby and Matriarch and the Grade II Citation Handicap, $250,000 cornerstones of the Turf Festival next week.   Six 3-year-olds were supplemented to the Hollywood Derby November 27 at 1...Read More
Hall of Fame trainer Ron McAnally said Thursday that All Star Heart, winner of the Grade II Las Palmas Stakes Sunday at Santa Anita, would probably make her next start in the $250,000 Matriarch, a Grade I test for fillies and mares at one mile on turf here November 25.   “The most logical place...Read More
All Star Heart, winner of the Grade 2 Las Palmas Handicap at Santa Anita last Sunday, is likely to make her Grade 1 debut in the $250,000 Matriarch Stakes at Hollywood Park on Nov. 25, trainer Ron McAnally said earlier this week. Owned by breeder Gerald Gibbs, All Star Heart, 4, won the Grade 2 Las ...Read More
Up In Time is likely to face older fillies and mares for the first time in a stakes in the $250,000 Matriarch Stakes at Hollywood Park on Nov. 25, following her victory in Sunday’s $100,000 Harold Ramser Stakes at Santa Anita.Trainer Simon Callaghan had mentioned the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes over a ...Read More

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