Seven of the 11 runners from the Nov. 2 GII Twilight Derby, including the top five finishers, will meet again and face some fresh faces in Saturday's GI Hollywood Derby at Del Mar. That race's winner Mo Forza (Uncle Mo) took some time to come around, breaking his maiden at sixth asking in a one-mile turf test at Santa Anita and followed suit with an 18-1 victory in the Twilight Derby.
Runner-up Succeedandsurpass (Ire) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) broke his maiden at third asking going a mile over this course July 27 and finished second in a Sept. 27 allowance at Santa Anita prior to the Twilight Derby. His stablemate and GII Hill Prince S. victor Neptune's Storm (Stormy Atlantic) completed the trifecta in the Twilight Derby. Also exiting that race are Henley's Joy (Kitten's Joy) (fourth), Kingly (Tapit) (fifth), Originaire (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) (seventh) and Nolde (Pioneerof the Nile) (11th).
Chad Brown invades from New York with a pair of contenders in Digital Age (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and Standard Deviation (Curlin). Winner of the GII American Turf S. earlier this term, Digital Age was fourth in the GI Belmont Derby July 6 and finished second in the Saratoga Derby Invitational S. Aug. 4. He was off the board in both the Sept. 7 Jockey Club Derby Invitational S. and the Oct. 5 Hill Prince. His stablemate Standard Deviation won Monmouth's Tale of the Cat S. in June and the Jersey Derby S. Aug. 18. He enters off a third in the Hill Prince back at his Belmont homebase.
Mark Casse saddles a new shooter in Uncle Bull (Uncle Mo), who won a turf sprint at Woodbine Oct. 12 and captured a two-turn test on that venue's synthetic course Nov. 11.
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