Santa Anita Picks for Today, March 20: Best Bets and Race Analysis If you’re looking for today’s Santa Anita picks, this Friday card offers several strong wagering opportunities built around race shape, pace flow, and class placement. Santa Anita’s March 20 program features a few especially playable races where the structure looks solid, along with […]
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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 […]
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 […]
By Jarrod Horak The Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita Park is one of the most important early-season prep races on the Road to the Kentucky Derby. Run at one mile and a sixteenth for three-year-olds, the race offers valuable Derby qualifying points and frequently produces contenders for the first Saturday in May. […]
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 […]
By Jarrod Horak There’s a $198,741 Pick Six carryover at Santa Anita for Friday, February 27, and with a two-day carryover, the total pool is expected to climb north of seven figures. That’s the kind of opportunity I circle. I’ve taken a couple of shots at similar carryovers this meet on $16 tickets—cashable efforts with four and […]
The February 27 card at Santa Anita Park offers a balanced mix of turf routes, dirt sprints, starter allowances, and maiden claimers that demand disciplined race-by-race evaluation. Rather than chasing every sequence, today’s betting edge comes from understanding pace flow, class placement, and which races offer clean separation between logical contenders and vulnerable favorites. This […]
By Jarrod Horak The $100,000 Pasadena Stakes is for three-year-olds traveling one mile on the turf course. It goes as the seventh race at Santa Anita Park on Sunday, Feb. 22 and the scheduled post time is 6:37 PM ET. Pasadena Stakes Field Pasadena Stakes Analysis With a lot of forward speed likely in this […]
The February 21 card at Santa Anita Park offers a deep mix of turf routes, downhill sprints, dirt claimers, and quality Stakes action. From tactical turf miles to speed-favoring dirt sprints, this is a card that rewards disciplined pace evaluation and class context. This Santa Anita full card betting analysis for February 21 focuses on […]
The betting outlook strengthens significantly heading into Friday, February 20. A Pick 6 carryover of $34,288 will be in play beginning with Race 4, and the total pool is projected to exceed $250,000. That type of opportunity is rare early in a sequence and positions the return card as one of the most attractive wagering […]
