Jerry Hollendorfer will send Rousing Sermon and Killer Graces for the Hollywood Park Autumn meet
Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer might be deprived of his champion mare Blind Luck after an untimely retirement, but he has plenty in the reserves that might not live up to Blind Luck’s calibre but they are certainly destined to do well and to cut smiles across their connections’ faces again.
Hollendorfers’ young stock contains a fiery colt called Rousing Sermon who has had his share of success in his short racing career, and the 2-year-old colt will be re-introduced for further assessment in the Hollywood Park’s Autumn meet.
There he will run in the $100,000 Real Quiet Stakes on 12 November, and will look to continue his stakes winning run at Hollywood Park as well.
The son of Lucky Pulpit, out of Rousing Again by Awesome Again, Rousing Sermon is coming off a win in the California Cup Juvenile at Saratoga on Santa Anita Park’s dirt course on 29 October, 2011, where under R Bejarano Rousing Sermon topped the 1 1/16 mile event in 1 minute and 43.52 seconds defeating Motown Men and Stoney Fleece, who finished second and third respectively.
This was the first time Rousing Sermon ran on dirt. His previous three starts have come on Poly Track and Jerry Hollendorfer will again try him on the synthetic surface at Hollywood Park for the Real Quiet Stakes.
Apart from Rousing Sermon, Jerry Hollendorfer has another promising prospect, a Kentucky bred 2-year-old filly Killer Graces who has been prematurely run against top runners of her division, and she hasn’t impressed much, but Hollendorfer is sure that the filly will have her moment in the sun.
Killer Graces will also participate in the Hollywood Park Autumn meet, and she will represent Jerry Hollendorfer in the $100,000 Sharp Cat Stakes for fillies on 13 November.
She will also run on a cushion track like Rousing Sermon and the distance is the same as well, both runners in different races will run at 1 1/16 miles.
“We felt Killer Graces really didn’t like the track at Del Mar,” said assistant and exercise rider Tessa Bisha. “She stumbled out of the gate in the Sorrento and didn’t show the same drive down there,” said Bisha. “She is back on a surface that she enjoys the best. And being by Congaree, she has always shown a style to run from off the pace and should like the distance.”
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