Executiveprivilege can set off quite a debate for the Eclipse Award after winning the Hollywood Starlet
Owned by Mike Pegram, Karl Watson, and Paul Weitman, Executiveprivilege could be in the conversation for the Eclipse Award for the juvenile filly division, if she goes on to land the Grade 1, $500,000 Hollywood Starlet Stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park on
8 December, 2012.
Trained by the Hall of Fame horseman, Bob Baffert, the 2-year-old filly by First Samurai will be the favourite to win the 1 1/16 mile contest, and the equal distribution of 120 pounds will definitely work in her favour among seven opponents.
Executiveprivilege in her six career starts has only been beaten once, and that was by Beholder in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita Park, where she finished second to the winner on 2 November, 2012.
Beholder will be missing from the Hollywood Starlet lineup, and she will be not seen in action until early next year. Trained by another Hall of Fame trainer, Richard Mandella, Beholder’s only stakes win was in the $2 million event at Santa Anita Park.
Out of Unaccounted for mare Refugee, Executiveprivilege won her first five races on the trot including two grade 1 races, and a second place finish in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies.
She started at Betfair Hollywood Park and defeated maidens at first asking going over 5 ½ furlongs, and then went on to win the Landaluce Stakes at about 6 furlongs. Both races were run over the Hollywood Park’s cushion track.
Over Del Mar’s summer meet, Executiveprivilege posted her first graded stakes victory, when she won the Grade 3 Sorrento Stakes over six and one-half furlongs, and in her second race at Del Mar, she defeated Beholder to win the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante
Stakes over seven furlong.
Over her two turns debut, Executiveprivilege nailed it with flying colours, when she won the Grade 1 Chandelier Stakes, defeating Scarlet Strike in second and Miss Empire in third, as she went on to cover the 1 1/16 mile distance in 1 minute and 44.95 seconds.
In the Starlet, Executiveprivilege drew post number 6 and will be ridden by Mike Smith for the first time, who takes over from Rafael Bejarano, who will be riding P. Miller trained Rhodium.
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