Field of Ten Set for Hollywood Turf Cup
G3 Sycamore winner Holiday Star will face nine others in the Thanksgiving Day Hollywood Turf Cup.
Holiday Star and Alakazan Alakazan, shippers from Kentucky for trainer H. Graham Motion, top a field of 10 entered for Thursday’s Hollywood Turf Cup. The first 1 ½-mile grass race in track history will go as the seventh on an eight-race Thanksgiving Day program which has an early first post of 11 a.m.
Holiday Star, a 4-year-old gelded son of Harlan’s Holiday, won the Grade III Sycamore Stakes at Keeneland on October 16 in his last start. Alakazan Alakazan, a 4-year-old Brazilian-bred colt, has been unraced since winning an allowance at Kentucky Downs in September.
The field for the Hollywood Turf Cup, from the rail out, is: Stoney Fleece (Tiago Pereira), Holiday Star (Mike Smith), Finnegans Wake (Victor Espinoza), Mystery Train (Joe Talamo), Patrioticandproud (Corey Nakatani), Irish Surf (Dan Hendricks), Alakazan Alakazan (Rafael Bejarano), Bench Light (Kent Desormeaux), Little Jerry (Martin Pedroza) and Power Foot (Tyler Baze).
