HOLLYWOOD PARK : Round-the-Clock Betting Is Here

Those so inclined will be able to place wagers on three kinds of horse racing from seven tracks in three countries and one other state today and tonight at Hollywood Park.

The betting binge will begin at 9:55 a.m. with the first of six stakes from Churchill Downs--including the Kentucky Derby. Five minutes later, the card from Woodbine in Toronto will begin. At 1 p.m., the local program will start. Golden Gate Fields will go at 1:15.

Those who have the energy--and the money--will then have harness races from Cal Expo in Sacramento, quarter horses from Los Alamitos and thoroughbreds from Hong Kong to get involved in at night.

The feature attraction at Hollywood Park is the $125,000 Inglewood Handicap at 1 1/16 miles on the turf. Savinio, who won the El Rincon Handicap at Santa Anita in his most recent start, is the 9-5 favorite.

With many from the local jockey colony riding in the Kentucky Derby, Russell Baze, Golden Gate’s top rider, will spend the day at Hollywood Park and will ride Savinio for the first time.

Much improved recently under trainer Walter Greenman, the 5-year-old gelded son of The Minstrel has a victory in three starts on the Hollywood Park turf course.

Torch Rouge, third in the San Francisco Mile behind Unfinished Symph and Vaudeville last month, is the 5-2 second choice. He will be ridden by Alex Solis.

The rest of the field: Kicken It, Stoller, Blaze O’Brien, Fadeyev and Firm Pledge.

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Horse Racing Notes

Wekiva Springs, scheduled to run in the Carter Handicap today at Belmont Park, has been scratched because of a problem with his left foreleg. “It looks like he’ll be out at least until the beginning of Del Mar (on July 26),” trainer Bob Hess Jr. said. . . . Petionville, who lost for the first time in the Santa Anita Derby, will work five furlongs Monday at Hollywood Park, then leave Tuesday for Chicago’s Sportsman’s Park and next Saturday’s Illinois Derby.