HOLLENDORFER >NO LONGER WELCOME= at SANTA ANITA
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SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 2019 OWENDALE ALONG LATE IN OHIO DERBY HOLLENDORFER by Alan Carasso >NO LONGER WELCOME= Rupp Racing=s Owendale (Into Mischief) continued his rich vein of form, rallying from last to peg back a game Math Wizard AT SANTA ANITA (Algorithms) and scoop the $300,000 first prize in Saturday=s GIII Ohio Derby at Thistledown. Long Range Toddy (Take Charge Indy), upset winner earlier this year in a division of the GII Rebel S., raced wide throughout and finished a distant third. Owendale was immediately out the back door and raced in tandem with Math Wizard under the line for the first time as the undefeated and untested Ohio-bred Dare Day (Can the Man) set a strong pace up front. Patiently handled by Florent Geroux while still content to caboose the field while well off the rail on the backstretch, Owendale quietly crept into contention and was on the heels of the leading quartet as the quarter pole loomed. Cont. p7 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Jerry Hollendorfer | Sarah K Andrew BLUE POINT DOES ROYAL DOUBLE Four days after defending his title in the G1 King’s Stand S., Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer is Ano longer welcome Godolphin’s Blue Point won the G1 Diamond Jubilee S. at to stable, race or train his horses at any of our facilities,@ read a Royal Ascot on Saturday. statement published by The Stronach Group Saturday afternoon. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. The track said that the decision was Aeffective immediately.@ The news came after a fourth of Hollendorfer=s horses broke down and was euthanized. American Currency, a 4-year-old gelding was breezing on the training track Saturday morning when he broke down. He was eased, beaten 28 1/2 lengths, in his last start in a claiming race on May 17. Claimed at Golden Gate two starts back by Hollendorfer for $20,000, American Currency was listed as a vet scratch out of a $12,500 starter allowance at Santa Anita June 16. AIndividuals who do not embrace the new rules and safety measures that put horse and rider safety above all else, will have no place at any Stronach Group racetrack,@ the statement continued. AWe regret that Mr. Hollendorfer=s record in recent months at both Santa Anita and Golden Gate Fields has become increasingly challenging and does not match the level of safety and accountability we demand.@ AI just got the news today, so I=m just trying to make things right,@ said Hollendorfer, when reached by telephone Saturday evening. 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I=ve started over 33,500 Those losses included the most prominent horse of all of Santa horses and I have been in horse racing for 40 years, and made it Anita=s rash of breakdowns this winter and spring, Battle of into the Hall of Fame. It hurts us Midway (Smart Strike), the 2017 GI whenever we lose a horse and Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile winner. we really don=t know what the The CNN report said that problem was with this horse Hollendorfer had also lost two today, but he was working and horses at Golden Gate Fields since he pulled up. You know, I=ve December, and said he had been started a lot of horses here in sanctioned 19 times by the CHRB California at Santa Anita and no since 2006 Afor over-medication or one wants to let me train here use of illicit medications on horses.@ any more. I thought that was a The Jockey Club=s Thoroughbred little premature. Maybe not Regulatory Rulings website shows 15 quite so fair. I think it was violations going back to 2005, extreme. I guess that=s all I have including seven for bute overages; to say. I have to step away from one flunixin overage; five for the use horse racing.@ Hollendorfer at Delaware Park in 2017 | Sarah K Andrew of an unapproved substance, Asked if he had heard from Del methocarbamol, a muscle relaxant; Mar and Los Alamitos as to his status at those Southern two for using more than one approved substance at a time-- California tracks, Hollendorfer said, Ano, we=re working on that.@ bute and flunixin; and one for a dexamethasone overage. He Friday, CNN posted a report that named trainer Hollendorfer also was fined for possessing an unlabeled prescription as a trainer Aunder scrutiny@ by Santa Anita after three of his medication. horses had lost their lives at the meet since it opened for the Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • JUNE 23, 2019 Hollendorfer cont. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released a Before Saturday=s incident, the chief veterinary officer for The statement from Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo which Stronach Group, Dr. Dionne Benson, hinted that Hollendorfer read, "Banning the infamous Hall of Fame trainer Jerry may not be welcome back. Hollendorfer from all Stronach tracks sends a message to every AWe=ve just gotten some information about what he=s done sleazy trainer that if your horses drop like flies, you will drop and his violations,@ Benson told CNN. AAnd so, we=re considering with them. Other trainers with multiple violations and the blood whether he will be, every trainer, we=re considering whether of dead horses on their hands should go the same way, pronto. they will be welcome back to Santa Anita.@ PETA and Social Compassion in Legislation are working with the Hollendorfer=s two Saturday entrants at Santa Anita were California Horse Racing Board and California legislators to enact scratched by the stewards and his two intended Sunday runners rules and legislation to get to zero fatalities and this means that at the Arcadia oval will also be scratched. His three Saturday trainers with multiple violations must not be licensed in this entrants at Pleasanton--not affiliated with The Stronach Group-- state. Ending all racing cruelty would be the best, but nothing remained in their respective races. less than these conditions is acceptable." Inducted into racing=s Hall of Fame in 2011, Hollendorfer has saddled 7,617 winners from 33,519 starters (22.7%), according to Equibase statistics, in a career spanning five decades. A three- time winner of the GI Kentucky Oaks (Lite Light, 1991; Pike Place © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. Dancer, 1999; Blind Luck, 2010), Hollendorfer also has three Breeders= Cup victories to his credit, the latest of which was the This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by any aforementioned Dirt Mile victory by Battle of Midway, who is means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written permission of the copyright owner, MediaVista. Information as to the also the lone Hollendorfer trainee to hit the board in a Triple American races, race results and earnings was obtained from Crown race when third in the 2017 GI Kentucky Derby. results charts published by The Jockey Club Information Services Hollendorfer-trained Eclipse Award winners include Blind Luck, and utilized here with their permission. Shared Belief and Songbird. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • JUNE 23, 2019 Saturday, Monmouth Park UNITED NATIONS S.-GI, $310,000, Monmouth, 6-22, 3yo/up, 1 3/8mT, 2:17.10, gd. 1--HUNTER O'RILEY, 118, g, 6, by Tiz Wonderful 1st Dam: Oblige, by Bernardini 2nd Dam: Foxcaller, by Beau Genius 3rd Dam: Playcaller, by Saratoga Six 1ST GRADE I WIN. ($120,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP; $50,000 2yo '15 EASMAY). O-Sean Shay & Michael J.