Been Studying Her may try turf in Jimmy Durante

DEL MAR, Calif. – Been Studying Her, who won the Golden State Juvenile for statebreds earlier this month at Santa Anita, will be considered for the Grade 3, $100,000 Jimmy Durante Stakes for 2-year-old fillies on turf on Nov. 30, or she could await another stakes race for California-breds, the Soviet Problem, at Los Alamitos on Dec. 14, according to Dan Ward, who saddled her for her last win.

Been Studying Her, now 3 for 4, has yet to run on turf, but she is out of a Kitten’s Joy mare, Maddie’s Odyssey, who already has produced turf stakes winner Grecian Fire. Maddie’s Odyssey is also the dam of Cal-bred stakes winner Sneaking Out. All her offspring were bred and are owned by Kevin and Kim Nish.

In her first work since the Golden State Juvenile, Been Studying Her went a half-mile in 49 seconds on Sunday at Del Mar.

Goliad aiming for DeMille

There are only 17 days between Thursday and the Grade 3, $100,000 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes on Dec. 1, but trainer Richard Mandella is hoping his 2-year-old colt Goliad runs well enough in an optional claimer in race 2 on Thursday to merit being wheeled back for the DeMille.

“He’s a big, strong guy,” Mandella said. “I think it’s doable.”

Goliad, by War Front, won his lone start, which came against maidens at Santa Anita on Sept. 28 going one mile on turf, the same distance as Thursday.

◗ Jockey Ruben Fuentes has withdrawn appeals of two careless-riding suspensions, totaling eight days, from the Del Mar summer meeting, and now will sit out eight days of the fall meeting, beginning Saturday. He is eligible to return Nov. 30. On Sunday, he received an additional three-day suspension for a disqualification in race 7 Saturday.

◗ Jockey Donnie Meche was suspended for three days, beginning Friday, for striking his horse on the head and using his whip when he was “clearly out of the race,” according to a stewards’ ruling citing an incident in a race at Santa Anita on Nov. 3.

◗ A celebration of life will be held for Sherwood Chillingworth on Sunday in the Chandelier Room at Santa Anita from noon until 4 p.m. Chillingworth, the executive vice-president of the Oak Tree Racing Association for 26 years, died last month at age 93.