Hollywood Gold Cup, Swaps
An eye injury will keep Perfect Drift out of Saturday’s Hollywood Gold Cup (ESPN). “It’s a little ulcer on his eye,” said trainer Murray Johnson. “It has healed well, but I’m not sure that he would be 100 percent and did not want to put him under any stress. It’s just that this race is on the other side of the country.” That the race is on the other side of country isn’t keeping the well-traveled Limehouse away. “Hollywood Park will be the 10th track at which he has raced, and he has already won races at five different tracks” (Daily Racing Form). On the undercard, Northern Dancer winner Don’t Get Mad is the likely favorite in the Swaps (Blood-Horse). He’ll face competition from Indian Ocean, winner of the Affirmed.
