Beholder Mile 2025 Analysis

By Jarrod Horak The Grade 1, $300,000 Beholder Mile is the 8th race at Santa Anita Park on Saturday, March 8. Six horses will face the starter and Cavalieri is the 9-5 morning line favorite. Beholder Mile field: 1 – Richi (2-1), 2 – Hoosier Philly (8-1), 3 – Cavalieri (9-5), 4 – Ultimate Authority […]

Santa Anita Handicap 2025 Analysis

By Jarrod Horak The Grade 1, $300,000 Santa Anita Handicap is the 10th race at Santa Anita Park on Saturday, March 1. Nine horses will face the starter and Locked is the 3-2 morning line favorite. Santa Anita Handicap field: 1 – Express Train (10-1), 2 – New King (8-1), 3 – Hit Show (5-2), […]

So You Think You Can Beat This Handicapping Game?

Commentary by Rod Young of Turfdom So You Think You Can Beat This Game? Well if you do, you are living in a fantasy world and not in touch with reality. I’m probably not the right person to be writing this paragraph as most of my income from racing comes from selling my selections, but […]

Santa Anita Palos Verdes Stakes and Baffle Stakes Recap

Santa Anita ran two stakes over the weekend, one each Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, only five went to the post when trainer Richard Mandella scratched the 2 to 5 favorite Big City Lights on the morning of the race for the Grade 3 Palos Verdes stakes at ¾ on the main track.  Bartholdy, coming […]

Purse’s Are Up, Handle’s Increasing and Early Speed is Winning at Santa Anita

Week seven is now completed at Santa Anita Park as they raced four days this past week which included President’s Day on Monday. All three of the weekend days managed to have 10 races. And while racing was being cancelled at New York and Arkansas due to weather concerns, it was fast and firm at […]

Santa Anita Week 6 Racing, Stakes and Connections Recap

Week six is now completed at Santa Anita Park for their long six month venue perched just below the San Gabriel Mountains. Rain came into play this past week with about 2 inches of rain falling mid week and taking the races off the turf on Friday. But the weekend played to a fast main […]

Santa Anita’s $100K Palos Verdes Stakes (G3) This Sat. Features A Clash Between Graded Winners Big City Lights and Anarchist

Big City Lights, winner of last year’s GIII, $100,000 Palos Verdes, will look to make it back-to-back successes in the six-furlong sprint when he takes on five rivals including graded winner Anarchist Saturday at Santa Anita. Big City Lights, trained by Hall of Famer Richard Mandella, got up just in time in last year’s Palos […]

Santa Anita Will Be Bumping Up Purse Sizes Starting On Feb. 28

Santa Anita Park will increase purses beginning Feb. 28 for the Classic Meet, which runs through April 6. The boost in prize money comes after increases in key business metrics for the Southern California landmark through the first six weeks of the season, which began Dec. 26. The purse increases are the result of collaborative […]

The Highest FIRE Figure has picked 5 Of The 7 Pegasus World Cup Classic Winners. See Who Has The Highest This Year.

Highest Performance Figures Earned By Each Horse Coming Into the 2025 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) | Saturday, January, 25, 2025  | Gulfstream Park | Race #13 | Post Time 5:40 EST Please provide a valid CSV file. The 2025 Pegasus World Cup Invitational pre-entries listed above show the FIRE Figure […]