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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 · 73 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 · 73 days ago ·
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Three weeks after finishing seventh in the Breeders’ Cup Mile, Jeranimo rebounded with an authoritative victory in the $250,000 Citation Handicap Saturday at Hollywood Park.   The 17-10 favorite against eight opponents in the third of five Turf Festival races over the holiday weekend, Jeranimo ...Read More
Saturday’s Pick 6 from Hollywood Park includes two graded races. First up is the G3 Vernon O. Underwood (6th race) for 3-year-olds and up dashing six furlongs on Cushion Track. Morning line favorite Euroears has flopped in two straight and horses exiting the Breeders’ Cup have been disappointing all...Read More
Larry Benavidez, assistant to trainer John Sadler, hopes to dismiss the last outing by Calimonco, entered in the $250,000 Citation Handicap at 1 1/16 miles on turf Saturday.   “We’re at a loss to explain his last race; it was a big disappointment,” said Benavidez Wednesday in reference to a sev...Read More
Jeranimo, who won the Oak Tree Mile the last time he raced in California, returns from Kentucky for the $250,000 Citation Handicap Saturday at Hollywood Park.  Trained by Mike Pender for B. J. Wright, Jeranimo was seventh of 13 in the Grade I Breeders’ Cup Mile Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs after h...Read More
Trainer Jim Kasparoff is looking forward to the grass debut of Grade I stakes winner Bob Black Jack in the $250,000 Citation Handicap, a Grade II test at 1 1/16 miles on Saturday.   “His sire, Stormy Jack, won the Oceanside on the turf, and his sire’s dam, Native Prospector, was a grass horse i...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
For the second time in 2010, Victor’s Cry sprung an upset in a significant turf race at Hollywood Park. Some six months removed from his 21-1 surprise in the Shoemaker Mile, the 5-year-old son of Street Cry struck again Saturday, rallying strongly at 11-1 to win the $250,000 Citation Handicap. Mean...Read More
Saturday’s pick six from Hollywood Park features the Grade 2 Citation Handicap for 3-year-olds and up traveling a mile and a sixteenth on the turf. Morning line favorite Court Vision was last seen finished a solid 5th in the BC Mile and he captured his lone local turf start. Violon Sacre has display...Read More
Successful in his only other appearance at Hollywood Park, Court Vision is back for another visit in Saturday's Citation. Read More
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  • cigar · Court Vision = The Rock? Come on, humph... · 440 days ago ·
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  • humphrey · cigar methinks you need to dust off your English usage and understand that a comparative SINCE does not mean EQUAL TO · 440 days ago ·
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Joel Rosario will ride Court Vision for the first time in the $250,000 Grade I Citation Handicap at 1 1/16 miles on turf here November 27, agent Ron Ebanks said Thursday. Court Vision, a multiple Grade I stakes winner with more than $2.5-million in earnings, will be shipped west from New York by tr...Read More
Thanksgiving weekend has come and gone. There are no more Grade I races this year east of the Mississippi and only one graded stakes race in NY. What does that mean? Very little in the grand scheme of things as one of the biggest money-making seasons in New York racing is set to begin. Racing begins...Read More
Trainer Humberto Ascanio's cellphone started ringing in the winner's circle at Hollywood Park on Saturday. Ascanio, the assistant to Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel for 35 years, was being interviewed by reporters after winning a Grade I stakes for the second consecutive day, this time the 5-year...Read More
Fluke's win in Friday's $300,000 Citation Handicap at Hollywood Park was a milestone that trainer Humberto Ascanio would have gladly postponed indefinitely. The Grade 1 race was Ascanio's first stakes win since the death of his boss, Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel, from a lengthy illness on Nov....Read More
By the time Cowboy Cal reached the eighth pole of the Breeders' Cup Mile at Santa Anita on Nov. 7, he was one worn-out 4-year-old colt. Setting a quick pace took its toll, and he faded to finish 10th of 11. It was Cowboy Cal's worst performance of the year, but it did not leave trainer Todd Pletcher...Read More
Thanksgiving is not only a time for families to gather together and celebrate everything they have to be appreciative for but to reflect on the best parts of their lives.  For racing fans Thanksgiving is that plus the unofficial end to the racing season.  There are only two Grade I stakes ...Read More
Multiple Grade 2 winner Cowboy Cal will try to put a disappointing performance in the Breeders’ Cup behind him as he makes a quick turnaround against nine challengers in the $300,000 Citation Handicap (G1) on Friday at Hollywood Park.Read More
Thanks to a heady front-running ride from Tyler Baze, Hyperbaric took the field from gate to wire to win the $400,000 Citation Handicap (gr. IT) at Hollywood Park Nov. 28. Read More

Race Results & Past Performances

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View DetailsView Video11/26/11Hol91 1/16 mT03+ MCitation Handicap-G2JeranimoWar ElementCalimonco1:40.87
View DetailsView Video11/27/10Hol91 1/16 mT03+ MCitation Handicap-G1Victor's CryProudinskyMeteore1:39.86
View DetailsView Video11/27/09Hol91 1/16 mT03+ MCitation Handicap-G1FlukeEver a FriendCowboy Cal1:40.48
View Details11/28/08Hol81 1/16 mT03 MCitation Handicap-G1HyperbaricFormal DecreeBecrux1:41.29
View Details11/30/91Hol81 1/8 mT03+ MCitation Handicap-G2Fly Till DawnBest PalWolf1:45.86