EARLY OPENINGS AT GGF FOR BREEDERS’ CUP SIMULCASTS
Early gate openings and special post times are scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Golden Gate Fields to accommodate the track’s simulcast of the Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships from Santa Anita.
Friday, grandstand and club house gates will open at 9 a.m.; the Turf Club at 10 a.m. Post time at Santa Anita is 11:15 a.m. and the first Breeders’ Cup race (the Marathon) will be run at 12:35 p.m. Golden Gate Fields will present its first race at 12:10 p.m.
Saturday, all gates open at 9 a.m. The first race at Santa Anita will be run at
10:05 a.m., and the first Breeders’ Cup race (the Juvenile Fillies) at 10:45 a.m. First post at Golden Gate Fields is 10:25 a.m.
Northern California trainer Jerry Hollendorfer will start two horses in the Breeders’ Cup – Blind Luck in the $2 million Grey Goose Juvenile Fillies on Friday, and Chocolate Candy in the $1 million Dirt Mile on Saturday.
Blind Luck has two wins and a second in three starts for Hollendorfer, who purchased the daughter of Pollard’s Vision after she broke her maiden by 13 1/4 lengths at Calder Race Course in Florida last June.
Blind Luck romped in a 5 1/2-furlong starter allowance race at Del Mar in her first outing for Hollendorfer, and then ran second in the seven-furlong Darley Debutante at the seaside oval. In her most recent start on Oct. 4, Blind Luck captured the 1 1/16-miles Oak Leaf Stakes at Santa Anita. The Debutante and Oak Leaf are both Grade 1 stakes.
The Grade1 Juvenile Fillies is a 1 1/16-miles race and Blind Luck will be ridden by Tyler Baze. Blind Luck is the 3-to-1 morning line favorite.
Chocolate Candy opened the year with victories in the California Derby and El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gate Fields but is winless in five subsequent starts.
A 3-year-old son of Candy Ride, Chocolate Candy has four wins in 13 career starts and $619,500 in earnings.
Chocolate Candy, who is 1-for-1 racing a mile on Santa Anita’s synthetic Pro-Ride surface, will be ridden by Joel Rosario in the Dirt Mile.