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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Malibu Stakes (Gr.I) 3 YO, 7F – $300,000 Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan is poised to get upset by the Santa Anita Derby winner Stonghold but we think there’s one more in the field that has good early speed with a solid rider that can beat them both. La Brea Stakes (Gr.I) F, 3 YO, […]
By Jarrod Horak I am recapping the Breeders’ Cup Saturday 2024 action in three posts. In my first report, I looked back at the BC Filly & Mare Sprint, BC Turf Sprint, BC Distaff, and BC Turf. My second article featured a recap of the BC Classic, and I will recap the final four BC […]
By Jarrod Horak The Grade 1, $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic was the marquee event on Saturday, November 2, 2024, and Sierra Leone stormed home from off to pace to beat post time favorite Fierceness by a length and a half. Japanese invader Forever Young finished third and made it a clean sweep for sophomores. […]