Two Four Dancer Is at Home

Two Four Dancer, who is entered in today’s first race at Hollywood Park, has done something no other horse on the card has done.

The 4-year-old Northern Park filly, who has spent most of her career running in low-level claimers, is a three-time winner in Inglewood.

Two Four Dancer has five victories in her career and she is batting three for eight at Hollywood Park.

Clearly, she is a horse for the course because she had floundered before winning here Nov. 17 for Jack Carava, who trains the California-bred filly for a partnership.

A two-time winner at Hollywood Park during the spring-summer meet, Two Four Dancer had finished fifth, sixth, fourth and fifth in four races at Del Mar, Fairplex Park and Santa Anita before rebounding under jockey Martin Pedroza.

If she is going to win another, Two Four Dancer is going to have to step up her game this afternoon against a solid starter allowance field running for a hefty $50,000 purse.

The one to beat might be Follow My Heineken, a gray mare trained by Mike Machowsky. She is moving back to the dirt after failing to threaten on the turf in the California Cup Distaff earlier in the month at Santa Anita. She won the last time she ran at Hollywood Park in June.

Like Two Four Dancer, Da Hot Affair is a multiple winner in Inglewood. Claimed for $20,000 out of her last start on Halloween by trainer Doug O’Neill, the 5-year-old Flying Victor mare has won two of four locally, but she was terrible in her two most recent appearances here. She finished last on both occasions.

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Race of the day: The seventh matches California-bred fillies and mares on the turf. Some sort of case can be made for most of the nine entrants. The hottest filly in the race is Castling, a 3-year-old daughter of Pirate’s Bounty who has won two in a row since returning from a long layoff for trainer Bill Currin. This will be her first try on the grass. Proud Tammie and Apollo’s Music are the only participants who have won on the Hollywood Park turf.

Who’s hot: Jeff Bonde. Going into Wednesday, the trainer had won with seven of his first 16 starters at Golden Gate Fields.

Who’s not: The field in today’s ninth at Aqueduct. The 13 original entrants, all older New York-bred maidens, are a combined 0 for 90.

Exotically speaking: A pick three singling Hint Of Scandal in the fourth, using Pick Of The Valley, Lusty Latin and Gobin Dan in the fifth and Moscow Jake and Evening Majesty in the sixth.

Winners: Previous Day/Meet Total: 1/34. Money: Previous Day/Meet Total: $4.80/$192.40. Total money bet: $278.