Saturday's 2nd at Hollywood

[Rupert Pupkin]

I'm surprised to see that Ron Ellis is 0 for 22 over the last year or two with his first-time starters. He used to do very well with first-timers. I think he was always around 15-20% with first-timers in the past. Just off the top of my head over the last several years I can think of several of his debuters winning. He won first-time out with Believe in Hope, Hopeful Union, Kapalua Bay, Declan's Moon, etc. If I had another 10 minutes to think about it, I could probably come up with another 5 or 6. Ron had a first-timer about two weeks ago that probably should have won but got beaten by a nose.