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 […]

IN HIS FIRST STAKES TRY, HOPPER GALLOPS BY 5 ¼ LENGTHS IN GRADE III, $100,000 AFFIRMED STAKES AS McCARTHY RUNNERS FINISH 1-2   PINCAY PRESENTS TROPHY FOR RACE NAMED IN HONOR OF 1978 TRIPLE CROWN CHAMP                   ARCADIA, Calif. (June 11, 2022)–With the legendary Laffit Pincay, Jr. on hand to present the trophy for […]

JOCKEY QUOTES             ABEL CEDILLO, HOPPER, WINNER: “I never (rode) the horse, Sean, doesn’t use jockeys to work in the mornings. I watched his last race, and he was sharp, so the key was just to get a good break and take it from there. “When I left the gate (he) was just so relaxed, I […]

D’AMATO EYES 3RD STRAIGHT SAN JUAN VICTORY SHIRREFFS HOPES THE BEAT GOES ON FOR LADY T FLIGHTLINE IS ‘AN EQUINE VERSION OF ROY HOBBS’ A WINNING SATURDAY FOR CEDILLO & ALEXANDER   D’AMATO SEEKS THIRD SAN JUAN WIN IN A ROW Enjoying a 55-39 lead over runner-up Doug O’Neill, Phil D’Amato’s third Santa Anita training […]

WHITE HAS ALL LINES OPEN WITH TWO-YEAR-OLDS ‘BERTIE’ BREEZES, IS POSSIBLE FOR SANTA MARIA SMITH RIDES HOT ROD CHARLIE IN SALVATOR MILE   WHAT’S MY LINE IS ODDSMAKER’S QUANDARY A total of 32 two-year-olds have been nominated to next Saturday’s two Fasig-Tipton Stakes, 12 to the $100,000 Debutante for fillies and 20 to the $100,000 […]

TRAINER LOOKS TO FUTURE IN GRADE III AFFIRMED FLIGHTLINE & BELMONT STAKES ON CENTER STAGE STAKES SATURATE SANTA ANITA’S AUTUMN MEET D’AMATO, O’NEILL HAVE SIMILAR NUMBERS AGAIN   PROMISING SOPHS FOR SEAN McCARTHY IN AFFIRMED Trainer Sean McCarthy sends out two promising three-year-olds in Saturday’s Grade III Affirmed Stakes at 1 1/16 miles, High Connection […]