Hollywood Park: Hollendorfer plots out stakes for Native Diver's top trio

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer showed on Saturday why his 2014 stable is full of more than just promising 2-year-olds.

Hollendorfer-trained runners were first and third in the $750,000 CashCall Futurity with the unbeaten Shared Belief, and Tamarando, who won the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity in September.

Earlier in the day, Hollendorfer swept the first three positions in the $150,500 Native Diver Stakes over 1 1/8 miles with Blueskiesnrainbows, Hear the Ghost, and Rousing Sermon. They are scheduled to start in major stakes in the opening month of the Santa Anita meeting.

The 4-year-olds Blueskiesnrainbows and Rousing Sermon will be pointed for the $200,000 San Pasqual Stakes over 1 1/16 miles on Jan. 11. On Jan. 18, Hear the Ghost, currently a 3-year-old will start in the $200,000 Strub Stakes for 4-year-olds over 1 1/16 miles. The Strub was run in early February over 1 1/8 miles in recent years, but has been moved to January in 2014 and will replace the defunct San Fernando Stakes.

The stable will run Zeewat, the winner of the Damascus Stakes on Nov. 2, in the $300,000 Malibu Stakes for 3-year-olds over seven furlongs on Dec. 26. Later next month, Summer Hit, a four-time stakes winner, starts in the $250,000 California Cup Turf Classic over 1 1/8 miles for California-breds on Jan. 25.

Zeewat has impressed Hollendorfer and his assistant, Dan Ward, with his recent training.

“The horse is much better than he was in the Damascus,” Ward said on Sunday.

* Hollywood Park will run on a Friday-through-Sunday schedule for this week, the last days of racing in track history. There are no more graded stakes at the meeting. The final two days of the meeting include two $200,000 stakes for California-bred 2-year-olds over seven furlongs – Saturday’s Soviet Problem Stakes for fillies and Sunday’s King Glorious Stakes.