Hollywood Park notes: Full Ransom targets Blue Norther Stakes
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Full Ransom, the winner of Saturday’s $100,250 Miesque Stakes for 2-year-old fillies, is likely to start early in the Santa Anita meeting in the Blue Norther Stakes over a mile on turf.
The Blue Norther is an overnight stakes and has yet to be scheduled. In past years, it was run in late December or in the first days of January.
Full Ransom won her stakes debut in the Grade 3 Miesque Stakes, closing from last in a field of six to finish a head in front of the Tom Proctor-trained Savings Account. Full Ransom races for Deron Pearson and trainer Jim Cassidy. Proctor said Savings Account will remain with his Southern California stable in the coming months.
Bullet work for Shared Belief
Shared Belief, the undefeated winner of the Grade 3 Hollywood Prevue Stakes on Nov. 10, worked six furlongs in 1:12.60 on Sunday, the fastest of 20 recorded works at the distance.
Shared Belief will make his Grade 1 debut, and his first start around two turns, in the $750,000 CashCall Futurity over 1 1/16 miles Dec. 14.
On Sunday, Shared Belief worked alone and impressed trainer Jerry Hollendorfer with the way he was traveling. Shared Belief was listed as having worked handily, but Hollendorfer thought the colt was moving easier than that.
“I thought he was breezing, but they didn’t give him breezing,” he said.
The distance of the CashCall Futurity does not concern Hollendorfer.
“Off the way he ran, I can say I’m not worried about it, but you never know until you try it,” he said.“He’ll have one more good work before the race.”
Hollendorfer will have a formidable team in the CashCall. He will start Tamarando, who won his second stakes in the Real Quiet Stakes over 1 1/16 miles Nov. 23. Tamarando won the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity over seven furlongs Sept. 4.
On Sunday, Tamarando worked a half-mile in 48.60 seconds.
He Be Fire N Ice gets rest
He Be Fire N Ice, a stakes winner at Del Mar who was scratched from Friday’s $250,000 Citation Handicap, will be rested until 2014, trainer John Sadler said.
“I’m going to freshen him for next year,” Sadler said. “I didn’t feel he’d be at his best.”
Owned by Cicero Farms, He Be Fire N Ice has won 5 of 15 starts and earned $332,330. A 5-year-old horse, He Be Fire N Ice won the California Dreamin’ Handicap at Del Mar in July and was second in two Grade 2 races – the Del Mar Mile and City of Hope Stakes at Santa Anita – before finishing eighth in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Santa Anita on Nov. 2.