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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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  • 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 · 184 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. · 186 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. · 201 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 · 187 days ago ·
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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
A Group I winner in her native South Africa, Gypsy’s Warning now has a Grade I victory on her resume after her come-from-behind score in the $250,000 Matriarch Friday at Hollywood Park. Returning to what might be her best distance, the 5-year-old daughter of Mogok and the Royal Chalice mare Gypsy Q...Read More
Friday’s pick six from Hollywood Park includes the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes for fillies and mares traveling a flat mile on the turf. Morning line favorite Special Duty is a multiple Group 1 winner and Bejarano hops aboard the overseas invader. Sunny skies are expected with a high temperature of 65.....Read More
Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms, which has won The Matriarch a record six times, will try for another Friday when the Grade I is run for the 29th time. Juddmonte, which won a year ago with favored Ventura, will be represented by homebred Special Duty in the $250,000 race at one mile on tur...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
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
This, Humberto Ascanio said, was the one he wanted. Ascanio, the long-time assistant to trainer Bobby Frankel, got his first Grade 1 win on Friday in the Citation Handicap with Fluke, then came right back on Saturday at Hollywood Park to win another Grade 1 race, this time with the brilliant mare Ve...Read More

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View DetailsView Video11/25/11Hol91 mileT03+ FMatriarch-G1Star BillingSummer SoireeNever Retreat1:35.45
View DetailsView Video11/26/10Hol91 mileT03+ FMatriarch-G1Gypsy's WarningWasted TearsGo Forth North1:34.01
View DetailsView Video11/28/09Hol81 mileT03+ FMatriarch-G1VenturaTuscan EveningDiamondrella1:33.58
View DetailsView Video11/30/08Hol71 mileT03 FMatriarch-G1Cocoa BeachPrecious KittenVisit0:00.00
View Details11/28/93Hol71 1/8 mT03+ FMatriarch-G1FlawlesslyToussaudSkimble1:46.78
View Details11/29/92Hol71 1/8 mT03+ FMatriarch-G1FlawlesslySuper StaffKostroma1:46.14
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