He Can’t Wait for This One

Hollywood Park did not save the best for last tonight, the second and final Friday evening program during the fall meet.

The eighth race is a seven-furlong sprint for $25,000 maiden fillies and mares that attracted eight entrants. Among them, the seven fillies and one mare have combined for 68 losses. Only 16 times have they managed to finish first or second and most of those have been racked up by My Whole Enchilada, who leads the field in defeats with 34.

A 5-year-old daughter of Masterfully, who is a son of Mr. Prospector, My Whole Enchilada is the only runner who made the board in her last start. She was third Oct. 10 at Santa Anita and it was the sixth time she had finished third in her career. This came a race after she had finished second at Fairplex Park, and that was the fifth time she had been the runner-up.

Among the others, Silver Flirt was sixth in her most recent and has been beaten by a total of 46 lengths in her last two starts after finishing third in her debut on Feb. 24, 2000; Quick Save was beaten by 29 lengths in her last race; Pirate’s Moon hasn’t been better than fourth in 12 starts; Sister Elsie has been fifth and seventh; Magical Colony has yet to come close in five races; and Li’l Lulu, who did finish second in back-to-back races in September and October, has regressed in her last two, checking in fifth and sixth.

The lone first-time starter is Going Nova, a 3-year-old daughter of Ashdown who has three slow drills at Fairplex Park on her tab for a barn that has won twice this year.

Best of luck to anybody alive in a Pick Three, the Pick Four, the Pick Six or the Place Pick All heading into this memorable finale.

Race of the day: The fourth, which goes at a flat mile on the turf, brings together a full field of fillies and mares, and the race could fall a number of different ways. The sixth is also an interesting turf sprint (51/2 furlongs) that marks the return of Olympic Light, the full brother to Olympic Charmer who hasn’t run since breaking his maiden by five lengths on May 5. Ron McAnally trains the Olympio colt for his wife Debbie.

Who’s hot: Lord Triagain. The Falstaff gelding has won three in a row and has lost only once in four starts since being claimed for $5,000 by trainer Barry Holmes on July 13 at Los Alamitos. His winning streak figures to end tonight when he steps way up in class in the sixth race.

Who’s not: Der Rosenthing. He finished last against maidens at 111-1 on the Santa Anita turf on Oct. 21, so, naturally, he’s trying winners in the sixth tonight. The gelding has been no better than seventh in any of his six starts and has finished in front of only one horse in his career.

Exotically speaking: A pick three singling Clever Roberto in the first; Sheza Jazzy Slew, Prospective Angel and Cheatin Cat in the second; and Bilbaino, Welo and Doc Ihnken in the third.

Winners: Previous day/meet total: 1/13. Money: Previous day/meet total: $6.60/$64.80. Total money bet: $118.