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Talking Scout and jockey Juan Hernandez taking the G1 Hollywood Derby at Del Mar
Eight long-winded runners will saddle up Friday for a mile and one-half tour of the Del Mar turf course within the forty second version of the Hollywood Turf Cup. The 12-furlong crucible carries a handbag of $200,000 and Grade 2 standing.
The morning line favourite within the affair is Eclipse Thoroughbred Companions’ gelding Talking Scout, who races out of the barn of coach Graham Movement and once more will draw the saddle providers of prime rider Juan Hernandez.
Hernandez teamed with the son of Mr. Speaker at Del Mar final Dec. 3 to seize the G1 Hollywood Derby, scoring by three-quarters of a size within the nine-furlong turf take a look at. The now four-time winner packs the most important bankroll — $684,643 – of any of the runners who’ll go postward Friday and has been hung the 5-2 favourite for the characteristic.
The highest two horses that Talking Scout should cope with seem like Peter Brant’s Francesco Clemente and Nguyen or Tran’s Balladeer.
The previous comes out of the fertile barn of eastern-based ace coach Chad Brown, who, since 2016, has received 13 stakes in the course of the Bing Crosby Season with horses he has shipped in from the east. The 4-year-old colt is a son of the highest worldwide sire Dubawi and ships for the Turf Cup off an allowance win on the garden at Aqueduct on October 19.
The latter hails from the native barn of conditioner George Papaprodromou and really outfooted Talking Scout within the G2 John Henry Turf Championship Stakes at Santa Anita on Oct. 1. Balladeer is a front-runner and he is seemingly the horse to catch.
Here is the total subject for the Hollywood Turf Cup in publish place order with riders and morning line odds:
Francesco Clemente (Umberto Rispoli, 3-1); Kenneth Ramsey’s Sure This Time (Giovanni Franco, 15-1); Baalbek Corp or Don Alberto Steady’s Lukka (Ramon Vazquez, 6-1); Pink Rafa Stud’s Planetario (Hector Berrios, 5-1); John O’Connor’s Astronaut (Mike Smith, 5-1); Balladeer (Victor Espinoza, 4-1); David Bernsen or Abbondanza Racing’s Japanese Ocean (Antonio Fresu, 15-1), and Talking Scout.
The Friday card will likely be off and working at 12:30 p.m. PT. The Hollywood Turf Cup is the seventh of 9 races on the afternoon with a possible publish time of three:30 p.m. PT.
