It’s a Seven-Up Cup for Day, McCarron

Before the races Friday, Pat Day was walking into Hollywood Park, heading for the jockeys’ room, trailing a large wheeled suitcase behind him.

“Got all your money in there, Pat?” someone said.

“Not yet,” Day said. “But I hope I can fill it up tomorrow.”

Day leads Breeders’ Cup jockeys, having won eight races on horses that have earned $13.5 million.

Day has mounts in all seven Breeders’ Cup races today, most of them with decent chances, but his only morning-line favorite is undefeated Favorite Trick in the Juvenile.

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The only other jockey with seven mounts today is Chris McCarron, who has won seven Breeders’ Cup races and ridden horses that have earned $12.3 million, second on the money list.

The California-based McCarron has never won a Breeders’ Cup race at Santa Anita or Hollywood Park. He’s winless with 20 mounts on the West Coast.

McCarron is positioned to pick up more than one victory today, however. Among his assignments are Touch Gold in the Classic, Souvenir Copy in the Juvenile, Rajpoute in the Turf and Exotic Wood in the Sprint.

Exotic Wood has won nine of 12 races and is seven for nine with McCarron aboard.

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Eddie Delahoussaye, another jockey with seven Breeders’ Cup wins, now wears glasses away from the track.

“I can still see good up close, like for riding,” Delahoussaye said. “These are just for seeing things far away. Sometimes in races, though, you don’t want to see what’s happening.”

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Breeders’ Cup officials are hoping for a crowd of 50,000, but Hollywood Park’s front office has been more conservative and is estimating 45,000. Ten thousand more may bet and watch the races on TV at Santa Anita.

Post time for the first race is 10 a.m., with the first Breeders’ Cup race, the Juvenile Fillies, scheduled for 10:55.

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Singspiel, who would have been favored in the Turf, had two screws inserted in his right foreleg Friday to repair a cannon bone that was broken Thursday.

Wayne McIlwraith headed the surgical team. Another veterinarian, Rick Arthur, supervised Singspiel’s treatment. Arthur said that Singspiel was whinnying in his stall about two hours after the surgery.

“It’s a fairly severe fracture, and it’s rare you get a horse back to the races with something like this,” Arthur said.

Had he run, the Turf probably would have been Singspiel’s last race.

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Behrens, sort of a forgotten horse in the Classic, was nosed out by Deputy Commander in the Travers and came back to beat Touch Gold in the Pegasus Handicap.

“I don’t think Skip Away is the horse to beat,” said Jim Bond, who trains Behrens. “Deputy Commander looks fantastic.”

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Jewel Princess, winner of last year’s Distaff, will be retired after she runs in the stake today. “She’s the most intelligent horse I’ve ever been around,” trainer Wally Dollase said. . . . Jockey Gary Stevens, who has appealed a five-day suspension he was given at Santa Anita, was hit with another five-day ban for the disqualification of his mount, Ladies Din, in a race on Thursday. Ladies Din was dropped from first to fifth place. . . . Superlative moved into stakes company Friday with a 1 1/2-length win in the $100,000 Maker’s Mark Stakes.