TABLE SET FOR HUGE CLOSING WEEKEND AT SANTA ANITA WITH SIX STAKES & THE POSSIBILITY OF A $3 MILLION MANDATORY PAYOUT POOL ON SUNDAY    AVERAGE FIELD SIZE FOR MANDATORY PAYOUT CLOSING DAY PICK SIX AT 10 RUNNERS PER RACE; $500,000 GUARANTEED IN 50 CENT LATE PICK 5 ON BOTH SATURDAY & SUNDAY                   […]

FRENCH-BRED NEIGE BLANCHE STRICTLY THE HORSE TO BEAT IN SUNDAY’S $100,000 POSSIBLY PERFECT STAKES AT 1 ¼ MILES ON TURF RACE IS ONE OF THREE STAKES ON 11-RACE CLOSING DAY CARD WITH FIRST POST AT 1 P.M.                 ARCADIA, Calif. (June 16, 2022)–Trainer Leonard Powell’s consistent French-bred Neige Blanche seeks her third stakes win of […]

UPSTART HONG KONG HARRY APPEARS THE HORSE TO BEAT IN SUNDAY’S GRADE III, $100,000 AMERICAN STAKES AT ONE MILE ON TURF AMERICAN IS ONE OF THREE STAKES ON 11-RACE CLOSING DAY CARD WITH FIRST POST AT 1 P.M.                 ARCADIA, Calif. (June 16, 2022)–A dazzling winner of his only two stateside starts, Irish-bred Hong Kong […]

LEADING TRAINER D’AMATO BIDS FOR HIS 4TH CONSECUTIVE WIN IN SUNDAY’S GRADE III, $125,000 SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO WITH TURF VETS RIJEKA & RED KING AS EIGHT GO A MILE AND THREE QUARTERS OVER HILLSIDE TURF SAN JUAN IS ONE OF THREE STAKES ON 11-RACE CLOSING DAY CARD WITH FIRST POST AT 1 P.M.                 ARCADIA, Calif. (June […]

REDDAM’S HOMEBRED FILLY ABSOLUTELY ZERO HEADS FIELD OF NINE MALES AT FIVE FURLONGS IN SATURDAY’S $100,000 FASIG-TIPTON FUTURITY   ARCADIA, Calif. (June 15, 2022)–A scintillating first-out maiden winner, Paul Reddam’s homebred filly Absolutely Zero looms the horse to beat as she takes on eight males going five furlongs in Saturday’s $100,000 Fasig-Tipton Futurity at Santa […]

HIGH FLYING TOM’S REGRET HEADS SATURDAY’S $100,000 FASIG-TIPTON DEBUTANTE AS JUVENILE FILLIES GO FIVE FURLONGS   ARCADIA, Calif. (June 15, 2022)–Unbeaten in two starts, trainer Jorge Periban’s Tom’s Regret returns to Santa Anita as she heads a field of seven juvenile fillies going five furlongs in Saturday’s $100,000 Fasig-Tipton Debutante. A California-bred filly by Tom’s […]

FRESHENED, CLASSY PRIVATE MISSION HEADS SATURDAY’S GRADE II, $200,000 SANTA MARIA STAKES AS FILLIES & MARES GO 1 1/16 MILES  ARCADIA, Calif. (June 15, 2022)–Idle since March 13, two-time graded stakes winner Private Mission heads a field of six fillies and mares going a mile and one sixteenth in Saturday’s Grade II, $200,000 Santa Maria […]

WITH THREE RACING DAYS REMAINING, HERNANDEZ ALSO LEADS WITH 22 STAKES VICTORIES   ARCADIA, Calif. (June 15, 2022)–A month shy of the two-year mark as a full-time rider in Southern California, Juan Hernandez, a 30-year-year old native of Veracruz, Mexico who had been a dominant force at Golden Gate Fields, is currently on a tremendous […]

JOCKEY QUOTES             JUAN HERNANDEZ, UNDER THE STARS, WINNER: “It always feels good when you win a big race like today. “I never had the opportunity to work her, but I watched her replays and she’s a really kind filly, she’s nice…you can do whatever you want with her. She can come from behind like […]

 UNDER THE STARS BREAKS CLEANLY AND TAKES GRADE II, $200,000 SUMMERTIME OAKS BY 1 ¼ LENGTHS AS HEAVILY FAVORED DESERT DAWN STUMBLES BADLY LEAVING THE GATE   LEADING JOCK HERNANDEZ RINGS UP HIS 100TH WIN, 22 OF THEM IN STAKES   ARCADIA, Calif. (June 12, 2022)–In her first start for trainer Sean McCarthy, Under the […]