SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 2019 NYRA WILL NOT AFTER AN 84-YEAR RUN, CURTAIN TO COME DOWN ON SUFFOLK DOWNS SUNDAY ACCEPT ENTRIES by Bill Finley The first race-ever run at Suffolk Downs was a $1,000 maiden FROM HOLLENDORFER won by a horse named Eddie Wrack, his victory a popular one as he was sent off at 3-1 by an on-track crowd estimated at 35,000 people at the newly opened Boston track the Associated Press called "immense and lavish." They came that day, July 10, 1935, to welcome and celebrate a new track and one that was sure to be a centerpiece of what was emerging as a booming area when it came to Thoroughbred racing. The feature that day was the $5,000 Commonwealth Cup, won by Boxthorn, who had run 16th earlier in the year in the Kentucky Derby. He was ridden by Don Meade, the same Don Meade who won the infamous 1933 Derby aboard Brokers Tip after the "fighting finish" with jockey Herb Fisher that included the two slashing each other with their whips as their mounts neared the wire. Cont. p3 Jerry Hollendorfer | Sarah K. Andrew IN TDN EUROPE TODAY SOVEREIGN SPRINGS IRISH DERBY SURPRISE by Bill Finley Ballydoyle’s Sovereign (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) led from flagfall to According to a report in the Daily Racing Form from David finish to upset the Irish Derby. Grening, Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer will not be Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. allowed to participate at the NYRA tracks. The latest news came about a week after NYRA announced that Hollendorfer would indeed be allowed to race in New York. A NYRA spokesperson told the TDN that there would be no comment Saturday evening. Whether or not Hollendorfer would be able to race in New York became an issue after he was banned at Santa Anita shortly after a fourth horse he trained during the recently concluded meet at the Southern California track had to be euthanized. A day after the Santa Anita ban was announced, NYRA issued a press release that said: "(Hollendorfer) is currently utilizing stall space at Belmont Park and was approved for stalls at Saratoga Race Course for the 2019 summer meet. NYRA will honor those agreements and he will be permitted to stable and enter horses at both Belmont and Saratoga." Officials at Los Alamitos, which kicked off a 10-day meet Saturday, announced shortly after the Santa Anita ban went into effect that Hollendorfer would be able to race and stable at their track. Del Mar has yet to make any public announcements regarding Hollendorfer's status for the meet there. 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According to the DRF, at least four of the six horses Hollendorfer has based at Belmont Park were in the process of being officially transferred to his assistant, Don Chatlos Jr., who now has his own trainer's license. NYRA steward Braulio Baeza told Grening that transfer was not complete as of mid-afternoon Saturday. Some of Hollendorfer's best horses are owned by Larry Best, who has spent lavishly at the sales in recent years. "They'll be in Don's name, he is now the trainer, he has his own insurance, everything," Hollendorfer told Grening. "I'm going to be forced to do that because my counsel told me that he understood if we entered horses that we could enter them but they would be scratched. How they would do that I don't know. I didn't want to take a chance on Larry's horses getting to run." When asked by Grening if he transferred his horses voluntarily, Hollendorfer said, "No." As for Del Mar, which opens July 17, a spokesperson for the track said, AWe have been in consultations with Jerry Hollendorfer and his attorney. We are still trying to work out an arrangement that would satisfy all parties, but we are not there yet.@ Stakes for Massachusetts-breds, the wrecking ball and the bulldozers will move in and start the process of turning the Curtain to Come Down on Suffolk Downs cont. from p1 racetrack property into housing and a shopping district. Suffolk's fate was sealed in 2014 when it was announced that Suffolk's application to open a casino was rejected. Instead the license was granted to a group headed by Steve Wynn, which would build a shiny new casino just a few miles down the road in Everett. To keep its simulcast license, Suffolk started to run abbreviated meets of six days or so starting in 2015. But even that is no longer possible as the property has been sold to a developer, HYM Investments, which is ready to go on its new project. "When I first got my license in 1985 it would have been crazy to think there would no longer be any racing in New England some day," said trainer Mike Gorham, once an annual leader in the Suffolk standings, who now trains at Delaware Park and Laurel. Gorham has four horses entered on the final card. Racing at Suffolk Downs | Getty Images "There was so much racing between Suffolk, Rockingham and the Massachusetts fairs," Gorham continued. "We even had a The mood will be quite different Sunday at Suffolk Downs, time where Suffolk ran during the day and Rockingham ran at where a much smaller crowd will come to say a final goodbye to night and they had no problem filling all the races. If you had a track that lasted for 84 years but in the very end couldn't find told me back then that we'd get to point where there would be a formula that worked to keep live racing alive. Soon after the no more racing I would [have] told you you were crazy. This is horses cross the wire for the 12th race, the $50,000 John Kirby going to be a sad day." Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • JUNE 30, 2019 Curtain to Close on Suffolk Downs cont. is far less profitable. You can see it in other jurisdictions as well Those who have been around New England racing even longer as here. The wagering dollars that were concentrated on live than Gorham can remember a time when there was more than racing are now diffused in multiple ways. We were a Double A just Suffolk Downs and Rockingham in New Hampshire. Maine horse racing franchise aspiring to be a Triple A franchise in a had Scarborough Downs. In very major league town. There Rhode Island, there was Lincoln are lot of people who live in this Downs and Naragansett. area who will pay attention to Vermont's track was called the Saratoga meet but they Green Mountain. In addition to didn't have a ton of interest in Suffolk Downs, Massachusetts $5,000 claimers racing in had a thriving fair circuit that November. That sounds harsh, included at times as many as six but part of it was the elongated tracks. After Suffolk closes, there racing schedule with lower-level will no longer be any racing, not purses. The market for that level just in Massachusetts but in the of racing was just not here." entire New England region. As New England bettors All that will remain is a harness gravitated more and more to the track, Plainridge Park, which did simulcast signals from the major not get a casino, either, but was league tracks and then took allowed a license to have slot Horses come off the turn at Suffolk | Getty Images their dollars to ADWs, where machines on the premises.