Stellar Wind gets back to work

DEL MAR, Calif. – Stellar Wind, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2015 who beat Beholder in the Grade 1 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes on July 30, worked a half-mile in 49 seconds on Saturday.

The workout was the first for Stellar Wind since the Clement L. Hirsch and represents the start of her preparation for an autumn campaign. Trainer John Sadler said Stellar Wind will have two additional workouts at Del Mar before the stable ships to Santa Anita in early September.

Owned by Pete and Kosta Hronis, Stellar Wind has two scheduled starts at the Santa Anita autumn meeting – the $300,000 Zenyatta Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles on Oct. 1 and the Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Nov. 4.

Stellar Wind earned a fees-paid berth to the BC Distaff with her win in the Hirsch.

Glen Hill sets up shop

Glen Hill Farm, which has won stakes in California in the last year with runners such as Chiropractor and Family Meeting, will have a small stable in Southern California this fall and winter, said stable president Craig Bernick.

Bernick said on Friday that six to eight runners will be sent to Santa Anita for the track’s fall meeting, which includes the Breeders’ Cup races on Nov. 4-5. Bernick said those runners will remain in California through the winter.

Glen Hill Farm, based in Ocala, Fla., had runners in California with trainer Tom Proctor until he relocated his stable to the East Coast in March. In recent months, Proctor has raced primarily in New York and at Mid-Atlantic tracks.

“We struggled this winter and ran out of stock,” Bernick said. “We have horses that fit out there.”

Proctor will train the Glen Hill Farm runners sent to California. Chiropractor, who won the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby at Del Mar last November, is expected to be sent to California. Chiropractor is entered in an optional claimer at Saratoga on Monday.

Cassidy in a groove

The Del Mar summer meeting has been the highlight of 2016 for trainer Jim Cassidy.

On Friday, Cassidy won his seventh race of the meeting when Frenzified ($11.20) won the $78,445 CTT and TOC Handicap for fillies and mares at 1 3/8 miles on turf. Cassidy had 24 wins for the year through Friday and may add to that total soon.

On Saturday, Cassidy said he has more than 10 runners scheduled to start in the final two weeks of the meeting, which ends Sept. 5. He hopes to start Prize Exhibit in the $200,000 John C. Mabee Stakes at 1 1/8 miles on turf Sept. 4.

Frenzified, who races for Deron Pearson, is scheduled to start in the $300,000 Rodeo Drive Stakes, a Grade 1 race for fillies and mares at 1 1/4 miles on turf at Santa Anita on Oct. 1.