Chad Brown Holds Strong Hand In Del Mar's Hollywood Derby, Seabiscuit Handicap
Del Mar will offer a stakes tripleheader on Saturday. The Hollywood Derby, Seabiscuit Handicap and Jimmy Durante Stakes are on the lawn. On Sunday, there will be two more turfers – the Grade 3, $100,000 Cecil B. DeMille Stake and the $400,00 Matriarch Staking. The trio of black-type affairs are part of the seven-race Turf Festival that closes out Del Mar's 2021 run. It's the final Saturday of its Bing Crosby Season.
Chad Brown is the favorite in Del Mar's Hollywood Derby and Seabiscuit Handicap. First post on Saturday is at 12:30 p.m. The full fields for the three stakes from the rail out with riders and morning line odds are as follows: Hollywood Derby: Red Baron's Barn or Rancho Temescal's Dicey Mo Chara (Tyler Baze, 30-1), C R K Stable's Beyond Brilliant (Kent Desormeaux, 12-2), CYBT, Sterling Stables or Nentwig's Cathkin Peak (Flavien Prat, 6-3), Reddam Racing's Team Merchants (Mario Gutierrez, 15- 1), Double L Racing or Natalie Baffert's Hudson Ridge (Mike Smith,12-5), Public Sector (5/2) and Wachtel St stable's Indian Peak. Seaboiscup Handiap: Three Diamonds Farm's Field Pass (Umberto Rispoli, 5/5). Jimmy Durante: Aldabbagh's Miss Bellatrix (John Velazquez, 10-15), Slam Dunk Racing, Newman's Toeris (Abel Cedillo,15-1000), Gary Barber's Travel Smart (6-10), David Meah's Reem Zabeel (15/1)
