Hollywood Park notes: Hollendorfer looks strong for CashCall Futurity

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer will have a strong team for the $750,000 CashCall Futurity on Dec. 14.

So far this month, Hollendorfer has swept the two stakes for 2-year-old males at Betfair Hollywood Park, winning the Prevue Stakes with Shared Belief on Nov. 10 and Saturday’s Real Quiet Stakes with the multiple stakes winner Tamarando.

Tamarando, the winner of the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity over seven furlongs in September, won for the first time around two turns in his third start at a longer distance. Ridden by Rafael Bejarano, Tamarando closed from last in a field of eight to win by 3 1/4 lengths over 21-1 Electric Eddie, a maiden.

The Real Quiet Stakes was run over 1 1/16 miles, the same distance as the Grade 1 CashCall Futurity.

“He just loves the distance,” Hollendorfer said after Saturday’s race. “I think he will be definitely run [in the CashCall].”

Owned by Larry and Marianne Williams, the California-bred Tamarando has won 3 of 7 starts and $355,120. Earlier this fall, Tamarando was third in the Grade 1 FrontRunner Stakes over 1 1/16 miles and the Golden State Juvenile over a mile, both at Santa Anita.

Bunairgead to join Cassidy barn

The Irish stakes winner Bunairgead will join trainer Jim Cassidy’s stable this winter after being acquired for approximately $700,000 at the Goffs November breeding stock sale in Ireland on Friday. Cassidy said Bunairgead will race for owner Deron Pearson.

A 3-year-old filly by New Approach, Bunairgead has won 2 of 12 starts, highlighted by a win in the minor Lenebane Stakes over 1 1/2 miles on turf at Roscommon, Ireland, in July. Bunairgead has finished second or third in three other stakes this year.

• Thursday’s $100,000 Vernon Underwood Stakes for sprinters drew a field of six. The Grade 3 race over six furlongs includes Anillo, Chosen Miracle, Color of Courage, Handsome Mike, Majestic Stride, and Roman Threat. Handsome Mike was eighth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita on Nov. 2. Anillo was third in the Damascus Stakes on the Breeders’ Cup undercard Nov. 2.