3 fillies, trainer Hollendorfer elected to hall
May 13, 2011SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer and champion fillies Open Mind, Safely Kept and Sky Beauty have been elected to the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame.
Hollendorfer has been Northern California's most successful trainer since the mid-1980s with 37 straight training titles at Bay Meadows and 32 straight at Golden Gate Fields.
Open Mind won 12 of 19 career starts and was voted champion filly as a 2-year-old in 1988, and again as a 3-year-old. Safely Kept won 24 of 31 career starts in a 4-year career from 1988-1991, and earned $2,194,206.
Sky Beauty won 15 of 21 starts, including the New York filly triple crown during a five-race winning streak as a 3-year-old in 1993.
The class of 2011 will be inducted Aug. 2.