Favored Swiss Lake Yodeler wore down 23-1 shot Rovenna in the final yards to win the $200,250 Soviet Problem Stakes Saturday at Betfair Hollywood Park.
The victory in the race restricted to 2-year-old fillies bred or sired in California enabled Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer to establish an Autumn meet record.
The one-length score by the 9-10 choice was the seventh stakes success of the season for Hollendorfer, bettering the mark of six originally set by Hall of Famer Charlie Whittingham in 1984.
Owned by breeders Larry and Marianne Williams, Swiss Lake Yodeler, who was ridden by Rafael Bejarano, covered the seven furlongs over Cushion Track in 1:23.90. She paid $3.80, $3 and $2.60.
A daughter of Swiss Yodeler and the Meadowlake mare Domasco Lake, Swiss Lake Yodeler won her second in a row and for the third time in four starts. She's earned $235,600.
In her first race since winning the Golden State Juvenile Nov. 1 at Santa Anita, Swiss Lake Yodeler, who earned her initial win against $32,000 maidens for trainer Mike Pender at the Barretts Race Meet at Fairplex Sept. 6, tracked the pace from the outside for most of the way, then surged inside the final sixteenth to win in her synthetic track debut.