Hall-of-fame horse trainers at Saturday's Wine Country Stakes race at Sonoma County Fair

Chances are the winner of Saturday’s $50,000 Wine Country Stakes at the Sonoma County Fair will be trained by a member of thoroughbred racing’s Hall of Fame.

Four of the nine 3-year-old fillies in the mile and one-sixteenth race are conditioned by trainers in the Hall of Fame. Three of those are from the Jerry Hollendorfer barn while the other has been sent north by Del Mar-based Neil Drysdale.

Miss Double d’Oro is Drysdale’s horse and she’s the morning-line favorite. She will carry the famed silks of Calumet Farm.

Hollendorfer’s trio is headed by Buttercup Gold and he’ll also be represented by Miss Boom Boom and Miss Centerfold. Russell Baze, who’s also in the Hall of Fame, will ride Buttercup Gold.

Hollendorfer was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011 while Drysdale made it 11 years earlier.

Alonso Quinonez will ride Miss Double d’Oro. The Kentucky-bred horse has raced exclusively at Southern California tracks and has a win and a second in five starts.

The Wine Country Stakes is the ninth of 10 races on the first Saturday card of the meeting. Action gets underway at 1:15 p.m. with a mule contest.

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The Wine Country is the first of six thoroughbred stakes races that will be decided during the 11-day meet. Each carries a purse of $50,000.

One of Baze’s rides will be for trainer Steve Specht. The Santa Rosa resident will give the world’s winningest rider a leg up on Go Mojave Go before the sixth race. Specht, who saddled two winners on opening day, will also be represented by Anointed Waters in the fifth.

Gary Greiner, who also calls Santa Rosa home, will have three racing Saturday. Cindari is in the third while Mama's Trashed and Gloryandprayer will both compete in the eighth.

Ricardo Gonzalez was the riding star Friday as he rode the last three winners on the card, including Time and Tides in the featured seventh race. He has five mounts set for Saturday.

Jonathan Wong is off to an early lead in the race for leading trainer. He won with his first three starters before Pressure Time finished third in Friday’s sixth race.