Hollywood Park to cut purses of 3 Grade 1 races
September 23, 2010INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - Hollywood Park will restore four stakes races to the schedule when its autumn meeting opens Nov. 4.
The track said Wednesday that the 31-day meet will include 18 stakes races - 12 graded - with purses of $3.2 million.
Three of the Grade 1 races - the Matriarch, Citation Handicap and Hollywood Derby - have each had their purses reduced by $50,000 to $250,000 to accommodate the return of the four races that were cut last year.
The highlight of those four is the $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup, a 1 1/2-mile Grade 1 race on Nov. 13.
The other three are the $100,000 Real Quiet Stakes for 2-year-olds on Nov. 6, the $100,000 Sharp Cat Stakes for 2-year-old fillies on Nov. 7, and the $55,000 Playa Del Rey Stakes for older fillies and mares on Nov. 14.
The richest race during the meet is the $750,000 CashCall Futurity on Dec. 18.