The Santa Anita picks March 14 2026 card brings together a competitive nine-race program highlighted by the Grade 3 San Simeon Stakes down the unique Santa Anita downhill turf course. This full-card analysis from Today’s Racing Digest focuses on pace setups, class levels, and trip projections across the afternoon. The San Simeon Stakes headlines the […]
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Santa Anita Picks Today – March 13 Card Overview The March 13 card at Santa Anita Park features a balanced mix of turf routes, downhill turf sprints, and competitive dirt claimers. Several races show clear structural advantages for horses with tactical speed, while a few maiden events introduce uncertainty. If you want the full race-by-race […]
By Jarrod Horak The Road to the Kentucky Oaks continues on Sunday at Santa Anita Park with the Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes. This $100,000 event for three-year-old fillies covers one mile and one-sixteenth on the main track and serves as an important Kentucky Oaks qualifying race. For this race, I’m using data from the […]
The March 8 card at Santa Anita offers a strong mix of maiden races, claiming events, turf sprints, and a quality optional claiming route. From a wagering perspective, the card leans heavily on pace interpretation and track-profile alignment. Santa Anita’s dirt course has consistently rewarded speed and pressing types, while the hillside turf and mile […]
The March 7 card at Santa Anita Park offers a mix of competitive maiden races, strong allowance events, and multiple graded stakes that shape the betting landscape. Using Today’s Racing Digest methodology—evaluating pace flow, projected performance figures, and track profile tendencies—the goal is to identify races where the structure creates clearer wagering opportunities. Santa Anita’s […]
Saturday at Santa Anita Park shapes up as one of the biggest racing cards of the early spring season. The March 7 program features four graded stakes including the San Felipe Stakes (G2), B. Wayne Hughes Beholder Mile (G1), Frank E. Kilroe Mile (G1T), and the historic Santa Anita Handicap (G1). At Today’s Racing Digest […]
By Jarrod Horak A $45,602 Pick 6 carryover is on the table at Santa Anita for Friday, March 6, and that creates a great opportunity to take a shot with a compact ticket. For this sequence I’m sticking with the same philosophy I’ve used in recent carryover videos — building a disciplined $16 ticket that still gives […]
The March 6 card at Santa Anita Park presents a competitive mix of turf sprints, allowance races, and claiming routes that should create several betting opportunities for serious horseplayers. With multiple compact fields and several races featuring clear pace scenarios, the card leans toward tactical runners capable of securing position early rather than deep closers […]
The March 1 card at Santa Anita Park offers a mix of turf sprints, maiden claimers, and competitive allowance routes that demand disciplined race-shape evaluation. Rather than treating every race equally, this card rewards selective aggression—pressing hardest where pace and figure alignment are clean, and scaling back where surface switches or bias conflicts introduce volatility. […]
The February 28 card at Santa Anita Park offers a deep mix of turf routes, dirt sprints, and a competitive stakes feature, creating several legitimate betting opportunities for serious players. Rather than chasing every race, this analysis isolates where the structure of the card presents clarity versus chaos, helping you decide where to press and […]