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HALL-OF-FAME TRAINER JERRY HOLLENDORFER NOMINATES FOUR
TO $65,000 EMERALD DISTAFF
AUBURN, Wash. (Aug. 7) – Fourteen older fillies and
mares—including four from the powerful Jerry
Hollendorfer stable—have been nominated to the $65,000
Emerald Distaff to be run Sunday, Aug. 21. That total is
up substantially from both 2009 and 2010 when nine
horses were nominated to the Emerald Distaff.
At 1-1/8 miles, the 16th running
of the Distaff is the meet’s championship event for
older fillies and mares and half of a stakes
doubleheader that features the 76th running
of the $200,000 Longacres Mile (G3).
This season’s older filly and mare division
has featured large fields and big payoffs, even though
You Me and Ema B has won two of the first three events.
Trained by Margo Lloyd, the 4-year-old You Me and Ema B
has a 4-0-0 record in five lifetime starts, including a
$23.20 upset in the six-furlong Hastings Handicap and a
$16 score in the one-mile Boeing Handicap. Nine furlongs
will mark her farthest race to date, but the daughter of
You and I continues to train well and could be up to the
task.
Hollendorfer has been a major force in
recent Emerald Distaff history while winning the race
with Secret Corsage (2005), Gemstone Rush (2007) and
Lemon Kiss (2008). Christmas Ship finished third for
Hollendorfer the last two years.
Hollendorfer has nominated Lilly Fa Pootz, U
R All That I Am, Washington Bridge and Waynetta to the
2011 Distaff. Lilly Fa Pootz, who began her career at
Emerald Downs, has developed into a steady stakes
performer on turf in Southern California, where one of
her best races was a second beaten a nose in the 2010
John C. Mabee Stakes (G2) at Del Mar. U R All That I Am
is 10-for-27 lifetime and has won five stakes in
California including three at Hollywood Park. Washington
Bridge has competed in a string of graded races and won
the 2010 Bayakoa Handicap (G2) at Hollywood Park.
Kimmyv, the 2010 Emerald Distaff winner, is
among three Canadian-based runners nominated to the
race, a contingent that includes the rapidly improving
5-year-old Dashing Daisy.
Weights will be released Saturday, Aug. 13 with entries
taken Wednesday, Aug. 17. The winner will receive
$35,750.
Nominations $65,000 Emerald
Distaff-Sunday, Aug. 21
Nominee
Owner
Trainer
Dashing Daisy
(5-BC) Glen Todd & Peter
Tom Troy Taylor
Daymaker
(6-KY) Swift
Thoroughbreds Inc. Dino Condilenios
Dream Sweeper
(5-KY) Dr. Rodney
Orr Chris Stenslie
Hard Way Ten
(4-KY) Herman Sarkowsky
Doris Harwood
Kimmyv
(5-KY) Swift
Thoroughbreds Inc. Dino Condilenios
Lilly Fa Pootz
(6-KY) Team Green & Jerry Hollendorfer
Jerry Hollendorfer
Private Fortune
(4-WA) Blue Ribbon Racing
#2 Jim Penney
Rewritten
(4-KY) Ron Crockett
Inc. Frank Lucarelli
Sweet Nellie Brown
(4-WA) James & Zola Proffitt
Jim Penney
U R All That I Am
(5-CA) Tommy Town Thoroughbreds
Jerry Hollendorfer
Washington Bridge
(4-KY)
Mark Dedomenico & Jerry Hollendorfer
Jerry Hollendorfer
Waynetta
(4-KY)
River Ridge Ranch, Taylor & Carver
Jerry Hollendorfer
You Me and Ema B
(4-WA)
Monogram Racing & Patrick Hoonan
Margo Lloyd
Zenovit
(4-WA) Dana Claxton & Riverbend
Stable Larry Ross
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