Jerry Hollendorfer

Top Associated Horses: Rendezvous, Smoothe as Candy, City to City, Five Silver Stars, Tango Tango, U R All That I Am

2009 Record: (1210-273-212-192)

2009 Earnings: $7,309,169

2009 Win %: 22% In-The-Money %: 55%

Born: June 18, 1946, in Akron, Ohio
Residence: Redwood City, Calif.
Family: wife, Janet, has been very closely associated with his stable as assistant. She suffered a brain tumor in 2009, which was removed shortly before the Kentucky Derby
Location: Based in Northern California. Has stabled at Santa Anita since 2007
Racing Background: Northern California’s all-time winningest trainer, Hollendorfer won every training title at major Bay Area meets from 1986 until 2008, when William E. Morey edged him at Golden Gate Fields. He has collected 32 straight training titles at Golden Gate Fields and 37 consecutive titles at Bay Meadows ... He continues to dominate the Northern California Fair Circuit, and is currently leading the standings at Golden Gate Fields through Oct. 7, 2009, with 18 wins ... Hollendorfer came to San Francisco in the late 1960s to visit friends and never left. He talked his way onto the backstretch at Bay Meadows and did various jobs for trainers Jerry Dutton and Jerry Fanning ... Hollendorfer took out his trainer's license in 1979. In his first six years as a trainer, he won only 59 races. In 1985, he won 56, then more than doubled that in 1986 with 117 ... From there, he's maintained a steady 25 percent win clip for two decades. His horses have earned more than $100 million. He saddled his 5,000th winner on Dec. 22, 2007, to become only the fourth trainer to reach that milestone ... Hollendorfer will always be linked with Hall of Fame jockey Russell Baze, who broke the all-time career record (9,530) of Laffit Pincay Jr. in 2006. About one-fourth of Baze’s victories have been aboard Hollendorfer horses
Racing Career: Through Oct. 4, 2009, Hollendorfer was ranked seventh among North American trainers by earnings with $5,532,253, but fourth by wins with 194 victories. He has been winning at a 22 percent rate with 56 percent in the money ... He also is ranked 19th among owners by earnings and 11th by wins in partnership with longtime client George Todaro, with $1,954,574 and 78 victories ... Has won 11 stakes, four of them graded through Oct. 4, 2009, including the G1 Oak Leaf Stakes with Blind Luck, who he co-owns with Mark DeDomenico and John Carver. Another horse he co-owns with Todaro and Team Green, Rendezvous, won the Del Mar Derby (G2). Won the Royal Heroine Stakes (G2) with Tuscan Evening and the El Camino Real Derby (G2) with Sid and Jenny Craig's Chocolate Candy, who finished fifth in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and ninth in the Belmont Stakes (G1) ... Hollendorfer considered Chocolate Candy his best shot at winning the Kentucky Derby since Event of the Year, but was disappointed in the trip the colt had over the off-track
Breeding/Racing Operation: Nicknamed “The Dorf,” he developed a reputation as a claiming trainer, but in a career turning point, Hollendorfer turned $16,000 claimer Novel Sprite into a $467,586 multiple stakes winner, to receive the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association’s 1986 Claimer of the Year award. Selected as California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Trainer of the Year in 1995 ... Hollendorfer trains horses for clients, as well as those he owns alone or in partnership. His clients have come from throughout the United States, including Seattle doctors George Todaro and Mark Dedomenico, Chicago’s Peter Abruzzo and the late John Franks of Louisiana. With the closure of Bay Meadows, Hollendorfer in the past few years has established a Southern California division. His wife, Janet, serves as his chief assistant and oversees their barns in Northern California while Jerry is on the road ... He has trained a number of multiple graded stakes winners, including two Kentucky Oaks victresses: Lite Light and Pike Place Dancer ... In 1991, Lite Light – owned by rap star M.C. Hammer – captured the Kentucky Oaks and defeated rival Meadow Star in the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont Park after losing to her in the Mother Goose several weeks earlier. In 1996, Pike Place Dancer became the first filly since 1954 to defeat the colts in the California Derby. She later won the Kentucky Oaks in stakes-record time ... King Glorious, whom Hollendorfer ranks among his all-time best, won eight of nine races, including the 1988 Hollywood Futurity and the 1989 Haskell Invitational ... In 1998, the undefeated Event of the Year almost became Hollendorfer's first Kentucky Derby starter but fractured his knee in his final pre-Derby workout ... Two years later, Hollendorfer’s Derby contender Globalize had to be scratched two days before the race after being kicked by a stable pony. Globalize recovered in time to make the Belmont Stakes and become Hollendorfer’s first Triple Crown starter, finishing10th ... His first Derby starter was Eye of the Tiger (5th in 2003), followed by Cause to Believe (13th in 2006) and Bwana Bull (15th in 2007). Cause to Believe and Bwana Bull swept the California and El Camino Real derbies in back-to-back years ... In 2001, Hollendorfer ran two operations, 2,000 miles apart. While his 60-horse hub remained at Bay Meadows, 50 more spent the summer at Arlington Park. Not only did Hollendorfer wrap up his 23rd consecutive training title at Bay Meadows with 35 winners, he also won the Arlington Park title. On the final day of the 101-day meet, Hollendorfer edged defending champion Wayne Catalano, 41-39 ... His most consistent runner in recent years has been Hystericalady, who ran second, beaten only a neck in the 2007 Breeders' Cup Distaff (now Ladies' Classic) and fifth in the 2008 edition. The Distorted Humor mare had a three-race win streak, which included the $1 million Delaware Handicap, stopped only by undefeated Zenyatta in the 2008 G1 Lady's Secret. ... Hollendorfer's only previous Breeders' Cup starter, Tuxedo Junction, was sixth in the ’98 Distaff ... Won the prestigious G1 Santa Anita Handicap in 2008 with Heatseeker, an Irish-bred that had previously been trained by Bobby Frankel. Before his retirement in June 2008, Heatseeker also won the 2008 G2 Californian at Hollywood Park. Hollendorfer considers Heatseeker one of the best horses he ever trained.

Breeders' Cup Record

Starts	1st	2nd	3rd	Earnings
3	0	1	0	$502,000

1998	Distaff	Tuxedo Junction	6th
2007	Distaff	Hystericalady	2nd
2008	Ladies' Classic	Hystericalady	5th