Golden Gate Fields notes: Cast in Silver makes second start

Cast in Silver was made one of the 23 individual interests in last week’s Kentucky Oaks Future Wager after she won her debut by 5 1/2 lengths here on Feb. 14. She makes her second start Thursday in a $50,000 optional claimer at one mile.

Cast in Silver earned an 86 Beyer Speed Figure in her debut at six furlongs, a better number than Eclipse Award winner She’s a Tiger has achieved.

A daughter of sprinter City Zip, Cast in Silver is the third foal of her dam, Palace Rumor. Both her siblings are winners, and last year her half-brother Palace Malice won the Belmont, so Thursday’s one-mile distance may not present a problem.

Cast in Silver will face Kris Furillo, who finished second in the California Oaks, and Josephine’s Moment, fifth in the Oaks, in a field of six.

Cast in Silver ended up at odds of more than 60-1 to win the Kentucky Oaks and would return $124.40 should she win the race. A $60,000 Ocala purchase last April, she is owned by John Carver and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.

Looking to the future

Cast in Silver is among three of the 46 3-year-olds listed individually in last week’s Kentucky Derby and Oaks future wagers who are based at Golden Gate Fields.

Hollendorfer trains all three: Eclipse winner Shared Belief, El Camino Real Derby winner Tamarando, and Cast in Silver.

Hollendorfer has won the Oaks three times, with Lite Light in 1991, Pike Place Dancer in 1996 and Blind Luck in 2010. He has yet to win the Kentucky Derby.

Hollendorfer has brought Shared Belief back to Golden Gate Fields, where he won his debut. Shared Belief is recovering from a quarter crack. He has yet to work but has been training over the track.

Shared Belief would return $33 in last weekend’s Pool 3 of the future wager if he were to win the Derby.

Tamarando, who is being pointed to the March 22 Spiral Stakes at Turfway, has two easy works since his El Camino Real Derby victory. He worked a half-mile in 49.80 on Feb. 23 and five furlongs in 1:01.80 on Sunday.

Tamarando would pay $108.60 for a Derby victory.

A fourth runner with Northern California ties, She’s a Tiger, was also listed in the Kentucky Oaks Future Wager. Last year’s champion 2-year-old filly, She’s a Tiger began her career at Pleasanton and is trained by Jeff Bonde.

She’s a Tiger, unraced since being disqualified from first to second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, had her first work back on Feb. 22 at Santa Anita.

She’s a Tiger would earn her backers a $33.60 future-wager payout should she win the Oaks.

Grazen’s Hope returns home

Thursday’s Golden Gate card will also feature another nice 3-year-old when Grazen’s Hope runs in a six-furlong $40,000 optional claimer. Unusual Americaine, who lost a photo to undefeated Exit Stage Left in the six-furlong Golden Nugget, is also entered in the race.

Trained by Steve Miyadi, Grazen’s Hope won his debut here at six furlongs and then a $50,000 optional claimer at a mile before stalking the pace and fading to sixth and last in the Grade 2, seven-furlong San Vicente at Santa Anita on Feb. 16.

Grazen’s Hope, owned and bred by Nick Alexander, is a Californa-bred son of Grazen.

Making his mark

Bold Chieftain’s first crop of runners are now yearlings, and Ellen Jackson is excited by what she’s seen.

Jackson, a trainer, runs Victory Rose Thoroughbreds in Vacaville, Calif., where Bold Chieftain stands.

“When you’ve got a stallion who stamps himself, it’s a really good sign,” Jackson said. “He stamps them. They’re like him – big, black and beautiful. Everybody I talk to has said they’re the best-looking foal they have. When people come to see his foals, I just take them out to the pasture and I can point them out with no problem.”

Bold Chieftain successfully covered 42 mares in his first year as a stallion and 38 last year. Jackson said that he is booked to 20 mares for this season, but that the number will increase because “people in California don’t usually book early like people in Kentucky.”

It will still be more than a year before the first Bold Chieftain babies reach the races.

“With his [route] pedigree, I don’t expect a lot of precocious debut winners,” Jackson said.

But she expects solid runners like their sire, who ran 47 times, including 37 times in stakes, and earned more than $1 million. He won every year from age 2 through 8 and ran second in his final outing, his only start at age 9.

Bold Chieftain won 14 stakes, including the Grade 2 San Francisco Mile, and he was second in six graded stakes. He won the California Cup Classic twice and the Sunshine Millions Classic.

Bold Chieftain won on dirt, turf and synthetics and in the mud, and won stakes at seven different California racetracks – Santa Anita, Del Mar, Golden Gate Fields, Bay Meadows, Pleasanton, Sacramento and Fresno.“Ninety percent of the people bringing mares to him are racetrackers,” said Jackson. “They know how sound and honest he was.”