Saturday's 2nd at Hollywood

[Calzone Lord]

All 8 horses in the field are 1st time starters.

It's pretty uncommon to see a field of nothing but debuters on a Saturday card, at a major circuit, in freaking December.

But so it goes with the trend of fewer starts and waiting longer to debut horses.

Interestingly, the morning line favorite is a Mike Puype horse who I would have expected to go off at least 10/1 on the basis of what I see on paper ... not to mention that the horse appeared to be nothing special in her under-tack work.

There is another Puype who is 20/1 on the ML ... and that one is a daughter of Dehere.