Horse Racing News on December 13, 2012

Runner-up as the favorite in the Hollywood Derby, Grandeur (Ire) will try to become the first 3-year-old since Bien Bien in 1992 to win the Hollywood Turf Cup Dec. 15 at Betfair Hollywood Park.

He's Had Enough, who missed by a head winning the Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile last month, and Nashua Stakes victor Violence square off against a quartet from the Bob Baffert barn in the $750,000 CashCall Futurity Dec. 12 at Betfair Hollywood Park.

A new state-controlled board of directors at the New York Racing Association held its first meeting Dec. 12, bringing the long-embattled racetrack operator to a new and uncertain place in its history that dates back to 1955.