Hollendorfer Busy With His Fillies

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer will have fillies running in stakes on both coasts Saturday.

While the 2011 Hall of Fame inductee travels to Delaware Park to saddle champion Blind Luck in the $750,000 Delaware Handicap, assistant Dan Ward will send out Washington Bridge in the $200,000 A Gleam Handicap and Killer Graces in the $100,000 Landaluce Stakes here.

While Washington Bridge--like Blind Luck a 4-year-old--has languished in the giant shadow cast by her stablemate, Ward cautioned that she should not be taken lightly in the A Gleam.

“She ran well in her last start at six furlongs and got stopped on the far turn,” said Ward of a fourth-place finish in the Desert Stormer Handicap June 19. “Seven (furlongs) should be good for her.”

Washington Bridge, who won the Grade II Bayakoa Handicap over Cushion Track last December, drew post seven in a field of nine with Joe Talamo.

Killer Graces comes off a 1 ¼-length victory in the 5 ½-furlong Cinderella Stakes and leaves from post two in a field of six under Talamo in the six-furlong Landaluce for 2-year-old fillies.

“The more distance for her, the better,” said Ward of the chestnut daughter of Congaree.