Hollywood Park: Stud plans for Calimonco put on hold

The Del Mar stakes winner Calimonco will remain in training in 2012, postponing for at least a year a scheduled trip to stud, trainer John Sadler said on Sunday.

The decision was made after Calimonco finished third in the Grade 2 Citation Handicap at Hollywood Park on Nov. 26, 2 3/4 lengths behind Jeranimo.

“He ran so well in the Citation,” Sadler said. “We talked a little bit and the plan is to go one more year.”

Sadler said that the $100,000 Daytona Stakes over about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita on Jan. 8 could be Calimonco’s next start.

“We have a lot of options,” he said.

Owned by breeder Marty Wygod and Don Cohn’s Ballena Vista Farm, Calimonco has won 4 of 27 starts and $294,466. He won the Wickerr Stakes at Del Mar in July. Calimonco was expected to go to stud at Ballena Vista Farm in Ramona, Calif.

By top stallion Storm Cat, he is a full brother to the 2004 champion 2-year-old filly Sweet Catomine, who won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies that year; and Life Is Sweet, the winner of the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic.