Can Turf Festival get Hollywood Park back on track?
Attendance, handle, purses and claims are all down, but this weekend’s three Grade I stakes could provide a boost to struggling fall meeting.
It’s the halfway point in the 40-day Hollywood Park autumn meeting, and this weekend’s Turf Festival featuring three Grade I stakes and six stakes overall offers an opportunity for a restart of sorts.
November has not been a kind month for the thoroughbred racing business in Southern California, with attendance, handle and purses down and claims off by 50% compared with the same period last year.
This weekend, besides the $400,000 Citation Handicap today and the $500,000 Hollywood Derby and the $500,000 Matriarch on Sunday, there will be an appearance by Zenyatta, the unbeaten 4-year-old filly, a leading candidate for horse of the year. She will be paraded between races Sunday.
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