by Mike Willman/Santa Anita|03.25.2023|9:13pm Dance To The Music Gets Clear Late In Santa Anita’s Desert Stormer Favored Dance to the Music broke sharply and was head and head with runner-up Violent Runner prior to gaining the advantage in deep stretch, taking Saturday’s $100,000 Desert Stormer Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita by one length. Trained by Mark Glatt and ridden for the first time by Juan Hernandez, Dance to the Music got […]
by Mike Willman/Santa Anita|03.24.2023|10:31am Santa Anita Schedules Eight Races For Monday’s Make-Up Card With Friday’s card cancelled due to 3.2 inches of rain of Southern California’s most recent storm, Santa Anita Park will offer fans and horsemen a special eight-race card on Monday, with first post time set for 1 p.m. In addition to eight races on Monday, fans will also be treated to free parking and admission, […]
by Mike Willman/Santa Anita|03.23.2023|10:46am Elm Drive Returns To Souther California For Saturday’s Desert Stormer Stakes At Santa Anita A Grade 2 stakes winner in her second start at age two, Phil D’Amato’s talented Elm Drive, idle since well beaten Sept. 24 at Pimlico Race Course, returns to Southern California and heads a field of five older fillies and mares going six furlongs in Saturday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Desert Stormer Stakes at Santa Anita. […]
by Mike Willman/Santa Anita|03.21.2023|4:59pm Heavy Rain: Santa Anita To Cancel Friday’s Card, Host Make-Up Day On Monday With heavy rain and the likelihood of more than three inches of precipitation at Santa Anita through Wednesday, track officials, in consultation with both the CHRB, TOC, Jockeys’ Guild and the CTT, have opted to cancel Friday’s eight-race program and to instead enter on Thursday morning for a make-up day of live racing on Monday, […]
by Mike Willman/Santa Anita|03.19.2023|7:16pm Cal-Bred Star The Chosen Vron Extends Win Streak In Sensational Star Thriller, Notches 10th Stakes Victory First by the slimmest of margins, heavily favored The Chosen Vron found a way to get it done in Sunday’s $100,000 Sensational Star Stakes at Santa Anita as he had show punters looking for a bridge to jump from before the photo finish came down. Owned in-part and trained by Eric Kruljac, The Chosen Vron […]
by Mike Willman/Santa Anita|03.18.2023|7:54pm Princess Bettina Scores On Front End In Santa Anita’s China Doll Although she had been running from off the pace in all of her recent races, the Peter Eurton-trained Princess Bettina took charge in the run to the first turn and was never headed before cruising a 4¼-length win in Saturday’s $100,000 China Doll Stakes at Santa Anita. Ridden for the first time in the afternoon […]
by Mike Willman/Santa Anita|03.16.2023|4:56pm Never Better At Age 5, The Chosen Vron Seeks 10th Stakes Win In Sunday’s Sensational Star Never better at age five, trainer Eric Kruljac’s brilliant California-bred gelding The Chosen Vron seeks his 10th career stakes victory as he heads a field of five older horses in Sunday’s $100,000 Sensational Star Stakes at about 6 ½ furlongs down Santa Anita’s Camino Real Hillside Turf Course. The Sensational Star is a part of […]
by Mike Willman/Santa Anita|03.15.2023|3:40pm Hall Of Fame Jockey Javier Castellano To Be Presented With George Woolf Memorial Award Sunday At Santa Anita Javier Castellano, a four-time Eclipse Award winning jockey and a member of racing’s Hall of Fame, will be accompanied by friends, family members, and a number of his fellow riders this Sunday at Santa Anita, as he accepts the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award Trophy in a Runhappy Winner’s Circle ceremony that will be […]
by Mike Willman/Santa Anita|03.13.2023|11:23am Ultra-Consistent Mares Alice Marble, Big Summer Headline Down The Hill O’Brien Stakes Favoritism is likely to be hotly contested in Friday’s $100,000 Irish O’Brien Stakes at Santa Anita, as two ultra consistent mares, the Phil D’Amato-trained Alice Marble and the Carla Gaines-conditioned Big Summer head a field of six older fillies and mares competing at about 6 ½ furlongs down the hillside turf course. The Irish O’Brien […]
by Mike Willman/Santa Anita|03.12.2023|8:14pm ‘This Was Certainly The Distance We’ve Been Waiting For’: Ballet Dancing Stretches Out, Scores Comfortable Santa Ana Victory In her first try at 1 1/4 miles on turf and ridden for the first time by Flavien Prat, trainer Simon Callaghan’s Ballet Dancing stalked longshot Annaghlasa to the quarter pole, then took control from there before scoring a dominant 3½-length tally in Sunday’s $100,000 Santa Ana (G3) at Santa Anita Ballet Dancing finished the […]