Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer and the champion fillies Open Mind, Safely Kept and Sky Beauty have been elected to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame by the 183 members of the Hall’s voting panel, it was announced yesterday.
Hollendorfer, based in northern California, won the training titles at Bay Meadows and Golden Gate Fields every year from 1986 through 2008. Through 2010, Hollendorfer ranked fourth in all-time victories (5,863) among North American trainers and eighth all-time in earnings ($119,141,280). He trains champion filly Blind Luck, winner of the Kentucky Oaks and Alabama, and also has won the Santa Anita Handicap, Delaware Handicap, Hollywood Futurity and Haskell.
Open Mind, a New Jersey-bred trained by D. Wayne Lukas, was champion 2-year-old filly of 1988, when she won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, and she repeated as champion 3-year-old, sweeping the New York filly triple crown (the Acorn, Mother Goose and Coaching Club American Oaks), bookended by victories in the Kentucky Oaks and Alabama.
Safely Kept, bred in Maryland and trained by Alan Goldberg, won 24 of 31 starts over a four-year racing career and was champion sprinter in 1989. Her major victories included the Test and Breeders’ Cup Sprint.
Kentucky-bred Sky Beauty, trained by Allen Jerkens, won 15 of 21 starts, nine of those victories coming in Grade 1 stakes including the filly triple crown in 1993, the Alabama, Go For Wand, Hempstead and Ruffian.
The induction ceremony will be held Friday, Aug. 12, at 10:30 a.m. at the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion in Saratoga Springs, just down the street from the racetrack. The ceremony is free and open to the public.