Dollase Sends Out a Warrior

The $400,000 Citation Handicap, which is part of Hollywood Park’s six-race Autumn Turf Festival, has been good to Wally Dollase.

The trainer has won the race the last two years with the now-retired Good Journey and is tied with the late Charlie Whittingham for the most Citation victories. Each has four.

Dollase can break the deadlock with Whittingham and win the Grade II for a third consecutive year when he sends out Irish Warrior against five opponents this afternoon.

Irish Warrior, a 5-year-old son of Irish River, has never won a stakes on the Hollywood Park turf course, but he has always run well there. A $90,000 purchase as a 2-year-old, he has won three of six on the layout and has never been worse than third.

The lone member of the cast with a stakes win on the Hollywood Park grass is Redattore. The 8-year-old, who won the Shoemaker Breeders’ Cup Mile for owner Luis Alfredo Taunay and trainer Richard Mandella earlier this year, will be trying to end a three-race losing streak today. Since the Shoemaker, he has finished sixth in the Eddie Read Handicap, third in the Live the Dream and third in the Seabiscuit Handicap.

Race of the day: Congaree, three for three at Aqueduct, is the 124-pound highweight as he defends his title in the $350,000 Cigar Mile. Owned by Bob and Janice McNair’s Stonerside Stable and trained by Bob Baffert, Congaree, who finished fourth in last month’s Breeders’ Cup Classic, will have seven opponents in the Grade I.

One for the road: The Cliff’s Edge won the Iroquois easily and can come right back for trainer Nick Zito in today’s $200,000 Kentucky Jockey Club at Churchill Downs. The race is one of two stakes for 2-year-olds -- along with the $200,000 Golden Rod for fillies -- on the track’s closing day program. Shane Sellers keeps the mount on The Cliff’s Edge, a son of Gulch.

Exotically speaking: A pick three using Bear Fan in the fourth, Dealer Choice, Castledale and Lucky Pulpit in the fifth and Mary Swan, Italian Dish, Wild Meeting and Yearly Report in the sixth.

Winners: Previous day/meet total: 4/42. Money: Previous day/meet total: $14.40/$206.40. Total money bet: $220.