Game Winner faces five in Santa Anita Derby
Champion juvenile Game Winner will seek to make amends for his first career defeat in a division of last month’s Rebel (G2) when he heads a field of six in Saturday’s $1 million Santa Anita […]
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Law Abidin Citizen wins San Simeon; Arms Runner fatally injured
The Mark Glatt-trained Law Abidin Citizen captured Sunday’s $100,702 San Simeon (G3), but his first stakes victory was overshadowed by Arms Runner’s fatal injury in the Santa Anita feature. Vanned off after breaking down, Arms […]
Catapult tops Kilroe Mile; Marley’s Freedom stretches out in Beholder Mile
Top-level action returns to Santa Anita on Saturday with older horses competing in the $400,000 Frank E. Kilroe Mile (G1) on the grass and fillies and mares squaring off in the $400,000 Beholder Mile (G1). […]
Gulfstream hosts Grade 3s on turf, Santa Anita re-opens with San Luis Rey on Friday
Gulfstream Park will offers a pre-Florida Derby Day stakes appetizer while Santa Anita resumes racing for the first time in three weeks this coming Friday. Hawkish, a promising three-year-old in the turf division last season […]
Gunmetal Gray injured in Santa Anita workout; entries drawn for Friday
On the day that Santa Anita issued a press release regarding its latest stakes schedule, anticipating a Friday resumption of racing, Sham (G3) winner Gunmetal Gray sustained a condylar fracture in a workout as reported […]
Santa Anita aims to resume live racing March 29 after Lasix deal reached
Live racing at Santa Anita is expected to resume March 29 following a compromise on The Stronach Group’s announced ban on Lasix at its California tracks. Belinda Stronach, President and Chairman of The Stronach Group, […]
Stronach Group to ban Lasix at its California tracks; 22nd fatality at Santa Anita
Belinda Stronach, Chairman and President of The Stronach Group, on Thursday announced a “zero tolerance” policy for raceday medication at Santa Anita and Golden Gate Fields in an “Open Letter about the Future of Thoroughbred […]
Santa Anita main track re-opens for light training: ‘Everything went well’
Veteran trackman Dennis Moore was pleased with the Santa Anita main track as light training resumed on the oval Monday morning. Shuttered March 5 following the 21st equine death this winter, the track has been […]
Improbable, Game Winner drill for Rebel clash
Although the San Felipe (G2) was lost in the wake of Santa Anita’s woes, the hotly anticipated clash between champion Game Winner and Improbable remains on course – just with a change of venue to […]
Santa Anita plans to resume live racing March 22; San Felipe among stakes canceled
Live racing is scheduled to return to Santa Anita March 22, The Stronach Group officials told Daily Racing Form and Blood-Horse Sunday, if all goes well with the main track under the microscope. Bill Finley […]