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HOLLYWOOD PARK : Stable Is Solid, Top to Bottom

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

Trainer Charlie Stutts is getting a lot of mileage out of his three-horse stable at Hollywood Park.

Delaware Drive’s second-place finish in Friday’s first race left Stutts, 50, with two victories and a second in five starts. One of the victories was by Cub One, who, like Delaware Drive, is a $10,000 claimer. The 5-year-old gelding won at $43.80 Sunday.

Stutts’ other trip to the winner’s circle was with The Name’s Jimmy, who led wire to wire under stable rider Danny Sorenson in the $108,600 Will Rogers Handicap on May 23. The 3-year-old Encino colt returned $20.20.

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Although the odds will be much smaller Sunday, the trainer is hoping for a repeat in the $110,600 Cinema Handicap when The Name’s Jimmy will take on seven opponents going 1 1/8 miles on turf.

“He’s coming up to the race super,” Stutts said. “He worked real early in the morning, about 5 a.m. on Monday (at Santa Anita), and I thought it was an excellent work and Danny was very pleased with it. I had him going seven furlongs in 1:27 and galloping out a mile in 1:40.

“He won (the Will Rogers) on the lead, but I don’t believe he has to be in front to win. I think he can come from off the pace if it’s necessary.”

After winning the first two starts of his career at Arlington Park and Calder, The Name’s Jimmy was beaten badly in his next four races, then sent to Stutts by owners Brian and Dennis Burns in December.

The Name’s Jimmy was beaten by more than 18 lengths in the Baldwin Stakes over a sloppy track in his first California start, but then was introduced to turf and began a turnaround.

He finished second in his first two tries on the grass, losing by a neck in one race and by half a length in the other. Then came the Will Rogers.

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That was the second stakes victory for Stutts at Hollywood Park. Stutts, who spent most of his career in Florida, won the 1989 Auld Lang Syne with Quiet Boy, a horse that had been claimed for $6,250.

Race The Wild Wind, whose three-race winning streak was ended by She’s Tops in the seven-furlong Railbird Stakes, will try to turn the tables in the $106,800 Princess Stakes today.

A 3-year-old daughter of Sunny’s Halo, Race The Wild Wind is proven at the Princess distance of 1 1/16 miles, having won the Fantasy Stakes at Oaklawn Park on April 12. She also won going a mile at Santa Anita.

She’s Tops, meanwhile, was well beaten in her only two-turn race. The daughter of Capote finished sixth, nearly 12 lengths behind winning La Spia in the Del Mar Debutante last year.

She’s Tops went to the sidelines for nine months after the Debutante, however, and has come back a different filly for trainer Richard Mandella. She has won both of her starts this year. Kent Desormeaux will ride her again. Chris McCarron remains with Race The Wild Wind.

Only three other fillies will start in the Princess: Looie Capote, Magical Maiden, who was third in the Railbird after stumbling at the start, and Gettin’ Air, fourth in the Railbird. Magical Maiden will race on Lasix for the first time. She bled slightly after working a mile in 1:39 3/5 on June 11.

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Mark Hennig, 32, an assistant to Wayne Lukas since 1987, is the new trainer for Clover Racing Stables and Team Valor.

With the exception of Marchito, a well-regarded Chilean import who will make his U.S. debut in today’s ninth race at Hollywood Park, all of Clover and Team Valor’s horses will be put under Hennig’s care in the next few weeks, according to Barry Irwin, Clover and Team Valor president. Marchito will stay with trainer Ron McAnally, a specialist with South American horses.

Among the horses Hennig will inherit are Belmont Stakes runner-up My Memoirs, Lady Blessington, who is scheduled to start in the Beverly Hills Handicap on June 28, Free At Last, who has four victories and a second in six starts on turf, and Madjaristan. In all, they have 35 horses, 25 of them in California.

Over the years, Clover and Team Valor have had horses with Neil Drysdale, Lukas, Richard Mettee, Julio Canani and several other trainers both here and in the East.

Formerly in charge of Lukas’ stable in Florida during the winter and Kentucky the rest of the year, Hennig will train locally, but will have an assistant in the East to handle the rest of the horses.

Horse Racing Notes

Alex Solis and Corey Nakatani will meet with the stewards today to discuss their scrap after Friday’s fifth race. According to one jockey, Nakatani and Solis rolled around on the floor for a while before being separated. Nakatani said that Solis had swung first and that he was merely defending himself. Nakatani rode Flight Call, who finished second, in the fifth, and Solis was aboard Desert Orchid, who was fourth as the 2-1 favorite.

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Sultry Song, third behind Strike The Gold and Pleasant Tap in the Nassau County Handicap two weeks ago at Belmont Park, has been supplemented for $25,000 in the $1-million Hollywood Gold Cup, which will be run a week from today. Another Review, the probable favorite for the Gold Cup, was supplemented earlier by Thomas Mellon Evans. Other possible starters in the sixth American Championship Racing Series race are Defensive Play, defending champion Marquetry, Twilight Agenda, Ibero, Adversary and Fanatic Boy.

Preparing for her 1992 debut in the Beverly Hills Handicap, Flawlessly worked a mile in 1:39 3/5 Friday morning for trainer Charlie Whittingham. Stablemate Golden Pheasant, who might oppose Tight Spot in the American Handicap July 4, went six furlongs in 1:12 4/5. . . . She’s Tops is the 8-5 morning-line favorite for the Princess. Race The Wild Wind is 9-5, Magical Maiden 5-2 and both Looie Capote and Gettin’ Air are 8-1.

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