Santa Anita Park

1/ST, the ownership group behind Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita Park, is partnering with auction company Fasig-Tipton, who will be their title sponsor for the new Fasig-Tipton 3-Year-Old Filly Series, the company said in a press release on Wednesday. The collaboration will spotlight the GII Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Park Oaks and the GII Fasig-Tipton Santa Anita Oaks, which are the final preps at both tracks for the GI Kentucky Oaks. The new series will debut Jan. 1 at Gulfstream Park with the Fasig-Tipton Cash Run Stakes and will conclude with the...

The 2024-2025 stakes schedule at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, will feature 79 added-money events over a total of 78 race dates, topped by the GI Santa Anita Handicap and the GI Santa Anita Derby. The Big 'Cap, worth $400,000 in 2024, will offer prize money of $300,000 this year, while the purse of the Santa Anita Derby has been cut to $500,000 from $750,000. On the flipside, the purses on offer for overnight races are above what was offered last spring and autumn, with four allowance and maiden...

The last few weeks have been and will continue to be important ones for Mark Cornett's C2 Racing Stable, which he owns alongside his brother Clint. A few weeks ago, the Cornett brothers won the GI PNC Bank Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint with longshot Soul of an Angel (Atreides). And later this week, their stable's star, GI Longines Breeders' Cup Classic winner White Abarrio (Race Day), will have first start since finishing a disappointing fifth in the GI Metropolitan Handicap June 8. He'll run in an allowance race...

Tickets for the 90th Opening Day at Santa Anita Park on Thursday, Dec. 26 are now available online, the track said via a press release on Wednesday. The day will include an array of events and entertainment, plus racegoers will receive a free 2025 wall calendar which features the 13 top moments in the history of Santa Anita as voted on by the public. With a first post set for 11:00 a.m. PT, general admission is available for $10, and premium box seats and Loge Box Seats are also available...

"Boy Trapped in Refrigerator Eats Own Foot." Well, that got your attention, didn't it? Devotees of a certain spoof disaster movie may recall the spinning front-page story--but few will be aware that it may yet, in a roundabout way, lead to genuine headlines at the Breeders' Cup. Bret Jones of Airdrie Stud was at a dinner a few years ago when someone passing behind his seat overheard him saying how much he enjoyed Airplane! "I was in that movie," said Billy Koch. On the face of it, it seemed unlikely....

Santa Anita's 16-day Autumn Meet concluded Sunday, Oct. 27 with Juan Hernandez on top of the jockey's standings, Bob Baffert winning the trainer's title and Harris Farms leading all owners in wins. For Hernandez, a 32-year-old native of Veracruz, Mexico, this was his seventh riding title at Santa Anita. He finished the meet with 25 wins from 103 mounts (24%), which was 10 more victories than runner-up Umberto Rispoli. Hernandez also led all jockeys in purse earnings with $1,566,410. His biggest wins came in the GII Oak Leaf Stakes aboard...

With a strong turn of foot late in the game, Watchtower (Demarchelier (GB)--Zloty, by Exchange Rate) won the GIII Autumn Miss Stakes at Santa Anita, and in the process handed her second-crop sire his first black-type score. A two-time winner earlier this year when she was in the barn of Chad Brown, Watchtower moved west after changing hands for $310,000 at KEEAPR from owner Peter Brant to the partnership of Abbondanza Racing, LLC, Omar Aldabbagh and Michael Iavarone, who placed her into the Richard Baltas program. A back-to-back runner-up against...

Tuned for a big debut performance and well-supported by the betting public at 30 cents on the dollar, it was Cipriani (Bernardini--Salamera, by Successful Appeal) who had DeLorean-like flames behind her as she blazed a trail home to graduate at the 'Great Race Place' on Sunday afternoon. The $875,000 OBS grad, who was taken home in March by Speedway as the fifth highest return through the ring, showed interest early, but was not quite quick enough as a longshot and American Blessing (American Pharoah) tussled for the lead up the...

Santa Anita Park is approaching its 90th anniversary Dec. 26 with the opening of the Classic Meet, and the track is calling on the public to vote for the 13 'top moments' in track history, it was announced via presser. Voting on those moments will be open until Friday, Nov. 8 at 5:00 p.m. PT with the top 13 vote-getters being featured in Santa Anita's wall calendar, which is provided to on-track patrons on opening day each year. There are 15 nominations to choose from, which were selected by a...

In a four-horse field where trainers Bob Baffert and Tim Yakteen accounted for the entire group, it was Silent Law (f, 2, Tiz the Law--Southern Silence, by Dixie Union) who put the pedal to the metal and never gave her foes a chance in the Anoakia Stakes at Santa Anita. In front right from the jump, the heavy 2-5 favorite rolled along on the lead while under a tight hold by Juan Hernandez through :21.64 and :44.65 opening splits. Entering the lane with a two-length buffer, Practical Dream (Practical Joke)...

With less than a week until the Breeders' Cup World Championships, you can pregame with a bevy of graded stakes races across three tracks and two types of surfaces on Saturday. Heading up to the Belmont At The Big A meet, the New York Racing Association has carded a trio of graded contests. Chief among them is the GII Mother Goose Stakes for 3-year-old fillies going nine furlongs on the dirt. At first glance, this appears to be a street fight between the pair that ran second and third to...

Some of the best fillies and mares in the world will soon descend on Southern California for the Breeders' Cup. But one of the fastest fillies in the sport will spend the afternoon in a stall for the GI Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff, while her trainer, Michael McCarthy. figures out path he wants to take with 3-year-old filly Accuracy (Arrogate). She's certainly not ready for the Breeders' Cup after maiden win, but a phenomenal performance in an Oct. 19 race at Santa Anita suggest the Mike Repole owned 3-year-old could...