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2013 Betfair Hollywood Park Spring - Summer Stakes Schedule
Track information and stakes schedule for the 2013 Betfair Hollywood Park Spring and Summer Meet, celebrating its 75th anniversary season.Full Story >>
June 13, 2013
Hollywood Park: More Chocolate, Lady of Fifty better than their last

A muddled cast of fillies and mares race for a $250,000 purse on Saturday at Betfair Hollywood Park, where the Grade 1 Vanity Handicap offers a chance at redemption for two key starters.

Brad Free: Hollendorfer filly's big brother Palace Malice does good

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer was not aware the Belmont Stakes on June 8 would be personally significant. As it turned out, he has closer ties to the Belmont winner than he knew.

Hollywood Park: Willard Proctor contender Willie B Awesome kin to Grade 1 winner

Willie B Awesome will start from post 6 when he makes his stakes debut in Saturday’s $100,000 Willard Proctor Memorial Stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park.

Ross Brinson, longtime California trainer, dies at 101

Former California trainer Ross Brinson, whose career spanned close to 70 years, died June 13 in Lakewood, Calif. He was 101.

June 12, 2013
Hollywood Park: For Cecil, famed uncle paved the way

Ben Cecil was a young teenager when he accompanied his uncle, Henry, to Newbury Racecourse near London in the early 1980s. It turned out to be more than a day at the races. It was a life-changing outing.

Hollywood Park: Paynter continues remarkable comeback in Friday allowance race

Friday at Betfair Hollywood Park, Paynter makes his first start since winning the 2012 Haskell in a $62,000 allowance race over seven furlongs.

June 11, 2013
Hollywood Park notes: Byrama switching surfaces in Vanity

Byrama, winner of two sprint stakes on turf, will switch surfaces and race at 1 1/8 miles for the second time in her career in Saturday’s $250,000 Vanity Handicap on the synthetic main track at Betfair Hollywood Park.

Hollywood Park: Puype making stakes plans for Calidoscopio, Mizdirection

After mixed results at Belmont Park last weekend, 2012 Breeders’ Cup race winners Calidoscopio and Mizdirection will head to Del Mar later this summer.

Hollywood Park: Autrey set to spend summer in California

Oaklawn Park-based trainer Cody Autrey has relocated his entire stable to California for a six-month stay through fall. Congenial, a gelding by Pulpit, gives Autrey a winning chance in race 6, a second-level optional $62,500 claiming race on the main ...

May 31, 2013
Jay Hovdey: Affirmed offers another shot to break through
By Jay Hovdey

For 3-year-olds like Dice Flavor, Sunday's Affirmed Handicap represents another opportunity to prove they belong with the division's best.