HOLLYWOOD PARK : Twilight Agenda Is the Highweight Over Another Review for Gold Cup

Another Review almost certainly will be favored to win his fourth consecutive race in the $1-million Hollywood Gold Cup Saturday.

The 4-year-old Buckaroo colt won’t be the starting highweight, however, in the sixth leg of the American Championship Racing Series.

Twilight Agenda, who hasn’t won since January and who finished ahead of only stablemate Dance Floor in the Nassau County Handicap at Belmont Park on June 6, has that honor. He was given 121 pounds, one more than Another Review.

Of the others expected to start in the 1 1/4-mile Gold Cup, Marquetry, the defending champion, was given 118, Defensive Play 117 and Sultry Song 113.

Trainer Ron McAnally has three possibilities for the race--Ibero, 115; Fanatic Boy, 113, and Adversary, 111. He still hasn’t decided which of the three will start, and it is possible he could have more than one entrant.

“We have a lot of options,” he said Monday morning.

Loser of five in a row since winning the San Pasqual Handicap Jan. 25 at Santa Anita, Twilight Agenda worked six furlongs in 1:13 1/5 Monday morning at Santa Anita.

“We asked (the exercise rider) to take him in 1:13,” said trainer Wayne Lukas. “They went in 1:13 1/5--he missed it by a tick.”

Another Review, who has won the San Bernardino, Mervyn LeRoy and Californian, went six furlongs in 1:12 4/5 Sunday morning for trainer Chris Speckert. He will be picking up a pound Saturday because of his 1 3/4-length victory in the Californian.

Before the San Bernardino, Another Review was treated with Lasix for the first time and has raced with the anti-bleeding medication since, but Speckert discounts its importance in the colt’s improvement.

“People are going on and on about Lasix,” he said. “But if they looked at the horse in January and looked at the horse now--it’s not Lasix that makes the horse so much bigger and stronger.

“They all think you got X horse in January and X horse in July. But really, what we have now is a double-X or triple-X horse. He trickled (bled) a little bit, so I added Lasix, that’s all.”

Bobby Weeks, 75, a longtime racing official at Hollywood Park, died in his sleep early Monday morning at his Hawthorne apartment.

A former jockey and exercise rider, Weeks had worked Sunday at Hollywood Park in his regular capacity as paddock judge. Over the years, he had served in several official roles at local tracks.

Weeks retired briefly in 1982, but returned to assume his duties as paddock judge at Hollywood Park.

Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Horse Racing Notes

Trainer Robert Marshall, who has done well with some expensive claims in the past, took Latin American for $100,000 Monday. The 4-year-old Riverman colt won the fifth race by a nose over longshot Seven Rivers in his final start for trainer Gary Jones. Among Marshall’s best claims are Soweto, Trebizond, Solar Launch and Half Cream, who won last Saturday’s 10th race. . . . Eddie Delahoussaye won three times Monday and jockey Corey Nakatani teamed with trainer Jacque Fulton for victories with Cozier and Blonde Fever.