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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 · 185 days ago ·
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A day after winning the $250,000 Citation Handicap with favored Jeranimo, owner B.J. Wright and trainer Mike Pender struck again in the $250,000 Hollywood Derby Sunday at Hollywood Park.   Ultimate Eagle, a 14-1 outsider, completed the 2011 Turf Festival with a gate-to-wire victory under jockey...Read More
Sunday’s Pick 6 from Hollywood Park includes two graded turf races. First up is the G3 Generous (5th race) for 2-year-old traveling a flat mile and morning line favorite Battle Force should be finishing fast for red hot trainer John Shirreffs. In the wide open G1 Hollywood Derby (9th race), solid co...Read More
The upset winner of the Jamaica in his US debut Oct. 8 at Belmont, Western Aristrocrat will seek another Grade I in the Hollywood Derby Sunday at Hollywood Park.Read More
Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey, who shipped Good Reward west for a 16-to-1 upset victory in the 2004 Hollywood Derby, hopes to spring another surprise with Imagining in the $250,000 Grade I test for 3-year-olds at 1 ¼ miles on grass at Hollywood Park Sunday.   The Derby climaxes the Turf ...Read More
Wayne Tanner, assistant to English trainer Jeremy Noseda, is optimistic that Western Aristocrat’s second trip to the United States will prove as fruitful as his first.   Watching the 3-year-old colt being walked outside Barn 50 South by groom Davey Graham following morning exercise on the track...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
Slumber and Island Paradise, a pair of English candidates trained by Charles Hills for the Turf Festival next week, were two of five European arrivals Wednesday.   Foreman Geoff Snook and exercise rider Heather Johnson enjoyed the scenery at Hollywood Park Thursday as they awaited the Hills duo...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
Five European horses are scheduled to arrive Wednesday at Hollywood Park for the Turf Festival November 25-27.   Trainer Charles Hills is shipping Slumber for the $250,000 Hollywood Derby November 27 and Island Paradise for the $100,000 Miesque Stakes November 25. Also bound for the Derby is th...Read More
All In Stable’s Willcox Inn, who won Saturday’s Hawthorne Derby (G3), is back at Keeneland with trainer Mike Stidham and will remain here to train for his next start in the Hollywood Derby (G1) on November 27. Stidham’s Keeneland string also includes Upperline, nominated to the Rood & Riddle Dow...Read More
Sunday’s pick six from Hollywood Park features the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby for 3-year-olds traveling a mile and a quarter on the turf. Morning line favorite Sebastian Flyte should enjoy today’s added real estate and could easily tag this group under Rosario. Sunny skies are expected with a high temp...Read More
Four of the first five finishers in the Oak Tree Derby Oct. 16 will have a rematch in the $250,000 Hollywood Derby Sunday at Hollywood Park. A Grade I for 3-year-olds at 1 ¼ miles on grass, the Derby is the final race in Hollywood Park’s annual Turf Festival.  The other Turf Festival event Sun...Read More
Shopped until you were a little horse on Black Friday? Get your voice back in tonight's handicapping chat at Iron Maidens Thoroughbreds! We'll review graded stakes races from Aqueduct, Churchill and Hollywood Park, including some of the races included in the West Point Thoroughbreds Handicapping Cha...Read More
Jockey Rafael Bejarano has taken a call to ride French star Special Duty in the $250,000 Grade I Matriarch for fillies and mares at one mile on turf November 26, agent Joe Ferrer said Thursday. Special Duty, an English-bred 3-year-old filly owned by Juddmonte Farms, is a double Group I winner for t...Read More
THE USUAL Q. T. (Unusual Heat) continued his hot streak in Sunday's $300,000 Hollywood Derby (G1), surging to the lead in the stretch and drawing off to record his fifth straight victory. The Jim Cassidy trainee, who had just held off Battle of Hastings (GB) (Royal Applause [GB]) by a head in the Oa...Read More
Sunday’s (Day 13) pick six from Hollywood Park features the Grade 3 Miesque and and Grade 1 Hollywood Derby. Both races seem wide open with In The Slips the 3-1 fav in the former, and Battle of Hastings the morning line choice in the latter. Read More
Trainer William E. Morey goes into the first Grade 1 race of his young career with no illusions. Not only will Sir Al be a heavy longshot in the $300,000 Hollywood Derby today at Hollywood Park, but the field of 12 is unusually strong even for a Grade 1 event.Read More
Starlight Partners’ Take the Points seems to have found his calling since making the switch to turf in June, winning two of four career starts on grass. The three-year-old Even the Score colt will gun for his third turf win and third straight Grade 1 triumph on Sunday when he faces 11 three-year-old...Read More

Race Results & Past Performances

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View DetailsView Video11/27/11Hol91 1/4 mT03 MHollywood Derby-G1Ultimate EagleImaginingWestern Aristocrat2:01.43
View DetailsView Video11/28/10Hol91 1/4 mT03 MHollywood Derby-G1Haimish HySebastian FlyteJuniper Pass2:01.20
View DetailsView Video11/29/09Hol91 1/4 mT03 MHollywood Derby-G1The Usual Q. T. Battle Of HastingsAcclamation1:59.69
View DetailsView Video11/30/08Hol91 1/4 mT03 MHollywood Derby-G1Court VisionCowboy CalMidships2:01.43
View Details11/28/04Hol9 T03 MHollywood Derby-G1Good RewardFast And FuriousImperialism2:01.53
View Details11/30/03Hol91 1/4 mT03 MHollywood Derby-G1Sweet ReturnFairly RansomKicken Kris0:00.00
View Details11/26/00Hol81 1/8 mT03 MHollywood Derby-G1BrahmsDavid CopperfieldZentsov Street15:07.30
View Details11/29/98Hol81 1/8 mT03 MHollywood Derby-G1VergennesDixie Dot ComLone Bird1:49.44
View DetailsView Video12/01/96Hol61 1/8 mT03 MHollywood Derby-G1MarlinRainbow BluesDevil's Cup1:46.00
View DetailsView Video11/20/93Hol61 1/8 mT03 MHollywood Derby-G1Explosive RedJeune HommeEarl Of Barking1:46.88
View Details04/16/78Hol51 1/8 mD03 MHollywood Derby-G1AffirmedThink SnowRadar Ahead1:48.20
View Details09/29/45Hol71 1/8 mD0 Hollywood DerbyBusherMan O' GloryQuick Reward1:50.20