UPSTART HONG KONG HARRY APPEARS THE HORSE TO BEAT IN SUNDAY’S GRADE III, $100,000 AMERICAN STAKES AT ONE MILE ON TURF AMERICAN IS ONE OF THREE STAKES ON 11-RACE CLOSING DAY CARD WITH FIRST POST AT 1 P.M. ARCADIA, Calif. (June 16, 2022)–A dazzling winner of his only two stateside starts, Irish-bred Hong Kong
WITH THREE RACING DAYS REMAINING, HERNANDEZ ALSO LEADS WITH 22 STAKES VICTORIES ARCADIA, Calif. (June 15, 2022)–A month shy of the two-year mark as a full-time rider in Southern California, Juan Hernandez, a 30-year-year old native of Veracruz, Mexico who had been a dominant force at Golden Gate Fields, is currently on a tremendous
FRESHENED, CLASSY PRIVATE MISSION HEADS SATURDAY’S GRADE II, $200,000 SANTA MARIA STAKES AS FILLIES & MARES GO 1 1/16 MILES ARCADIA, Calif. (June 15, 2022)–Idle since March 13, two-time graded stakes winner Private Mission heads a field of six fillies and mares going a mile and one sixteenth in Saturday’s Grade II, $200,000 Santa Maria
HIGH FLYING TOM’S REGRET HEADS SATURDAY’S $100,000 FASIG-TIPTON DEBUTANTE AS JUVENILE FILLIES GO FIVE FURLONGS ARCADIA, Calif. (June 15, 2022)–Unbeaten in two starts, trainer Jorge Periban’s Tom’s Regret returns to Santa Anita as she heads a field of seven juvenile fillies going five furlongs in Saturday’s $100,000 Fasig-Tipton Debutante. A California-bred filly by Tom’s
REDDAM’S HOMEBRED FILLY ABSOLUTELY ZERO HEADS FIELD OF NINE MALES AT FIVE FURLONGS IN SATURDAY’S $100,000 FASIG-TIPTON FUTURITY ARCADIA, Calif. (June 15, 2022)–A scintillating first-out maiden winner, Paul Reddam’s homebred filly Absolutely Zero looms the horse to beat as she takes on eight males going five furlongs in Saturday’s $100,000 Fasig-Tipton Futurity at Santa
UNDER THE STARS BREAKS CLEANLY AND TAKES GRADE II, $200,000 SUMMERTIME OAKS BY 1 ¼ LENGTHS AS HEAVILY FAVORED DESERT DAWN STUMBLES BADLY LEAVING THE GATE LEADING JOCK HERNANDEZ RINGS UP HIS 100TH WIN, 22 OF THEM IN STAKES ARCADIA, Calif. (June 12, 2022)–In her first start for trainer Sean McCarthy, Under the
IN HIS FIRST STAKES TRY, HOPPER GALLOPS BY 5 ¼ LENGTHS IN GRADE III, $100,000 AFFIRMED STAKES AS McCARTHY RUNNERS FINISH 1-2 PINCAY PRESENTS TROPHY FOR RACE NAMED IN HONOR OF 1978 TRIPLE CROWN CHAMP ARCADIA, Calif. (June 11, 2022)–With the legendary Laffit Pincay, Jr. on hand to present the trophy for
D’AMATO’S DESERT DAWN HEADS SUNDAY’S GRADE II, $200,000 SUMMERTIME OAKS AS SOPHOMORE FILLIES GO 1 1/16 MILES ARCADIA, Calif. (June 9, 2022)–Desert Dawn, the unlikely winner of the Grade II Santa Anita Oaks who went on to run a solid third at 50-1 in the Grade I Kentucky Oaks, returns to Santa Anita on
MULTIPLE STAKES WINNING NEWGRANGE TOPS SATURDAY’S GRADE III, $100,000 AFFIRMED STAKES AT 1 1/16 MILES ARCADIA, Calif. (June 8, 2022)–A two-time graded stakes winner, trainer Tim Yakteen’s Newgrange heads an evenly matched group of six sophomores going a mile and one sixteenth in Saturday’s Grade III, $100,000 Affirmed Stakes at Santa Anita. A winner