Santa Anita News

STABLE NOTES BY ED GOLDEN

• HUNTSVILLE TRIES TO KEEP ‘HEAT’ ON IN SAN GABRIEL • SKY HIGH GAL WORKING WELL FOR MONROVIA STAKES • SHARED BELIEF DRILLS FOR 3-YEAR-OLD DEBUT IN LEWIS UNUSUAL HEAT OFF TO FAST START AS 24-YEAR-OLD STUD Like Old Man River, Unusual Heat jes’ keeps rollin’ along. The venerable stallion, who stands at Harris Farms […]

SANTA ANITA PARK ANNOUNCES $150,000 GUARANTEED PICK SIX POOL EACH SATURDAY, POPULAR $2 WAGER COVERS FINAL SIX RACES EACH DAY

ARCADIA, Calif. (Jan. 2, 2014)–Santa Anita Park has announced that it will guarantee a $150,000 Pick Six pool each Saturday, beginning Jan. 4, throughout the current Winter Meet, which ends April 20. The Pick Six, first instituted at Santa Anita on Oct. 17, 1980, is a $2 minimum wager that requires players to select the […]

PONTCHATRAIN SEEKS THIRD WIN IN-A-ROW IN SUNDAY’S GRADE II MONROVIA STAKES, STEVENS/PROCTOR TEAM UP AT 6 ½ FURLONGS DOWN HILLSIDE TURF

DEEP FIELD OF 10 FILLIES & MARES SET TO GO, KINDLE LOOMS SPEED OF RACE WITH BEJARANO ARCADIA, Calif. (Jan. 2, 2014)–Trainer Tom Proctor and jockey Gary Stevens, who enjoyed considerable success throughout 2013, will try to get the New Year rolling in Sunday’s Grade II, $200,000 Monrovia Stakes with the talented filly Pontchatrain, who […]

REGALLY READY MAKES EASY LEAD & COASTS GATE TO WIRE IN THURSDAY’S $65,000 MERCURY PURSE ALLOWANCE, SMITH GUIDES ASMUSSEN RUNNER TO 1 ¼ LENGTH WIN COVERING MILE ON GRASS IN 1:33 FLAT

ARCADIA, Calif. (Jan. 2, 2014)–With the temporary rail set at 15 feet and the front-end there for the taking, Mike Smith seized control of Thursday’s $65,000 Mercury Purse allowance, guiding the Steve Asmussen-trained Regally Ready to a 1 ¼ length win at 3-1 while covering one mile on turf in 1:33 flat. “It was pretty […]

STABLE NOTES BY ED GOLDEN

• PATRIOTISM HIGH WITH WOUNDED WARRIOR STABLES • TRAINER CALLAGHAN SEEKS WEEKEND STAKES DOUBLE • GUARANTEED PICK 6 POOL OF $150,000 BEGINS SATURDAY • GOOD START TO 2014: 11,233 ON TRACK AT SANTA ANITA OWNER McEWEN GOES BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY There was more than one winner when Sushi Empire rolled to a stylish […]

JERANIMO LOOMS LARGE IN SATURDAY’S GRADE II SAN GABRIEL STAKES AT 1 1/8 MILES ON TURF, PENDER-TRAINED VET WON RACE IN 2010 & 2013; WIDE OPEN FIELD OF 11 OLDER HORSES ENGAGED

SANTA ANITA WILL ALSO OFFER GRADE II, 6 ½ FURLONG SANTA YNEZ FOR 3-YEAR-OLD FILLIES AND $75,000 MIDNIGHT LUTE STAKES FOR OLDER HORSES AT SIX FURLONGS ARCADIA, Calif. (Jan. 1, 2014)–Jeranimo, An 8-year-old warrior who banked $293,964 in 2013, heads a field of 11 older horses in Saturday’s Grade II, $200,000 San Gabriel Stakes at […]

SUSHI EMPIRE RATES, POUNCES, WINS $75,000 BLUE NORTHER STAKES, NAKATANI GUIDES DAUGHTER OF EMPIRE MAKER TO 1 ¼ LENGTH VICTORY

PICK SIX CARRYOVER OF $71,474 INTO THURSDAY, POOL EXPECTED TO EXCEED $500,000 ARCADIA, Calif. (Jan. 1, 2014)–With the aplomb of a seasoned veteran, Sushi Empire rated off the early pace and came flying three-wide into the stretch to break her maiden in Santa Anita’s $75,000 Blue Norther Stakes for 3-year-old fillies by 1 ¼ lengths, […]

STABLE NOTES BY ED GOLDEN

• NEW YEAR, NEW HORIZONS FOR SO-CAL HORSEMEN • STREAKING PONCHATRAIN SET FOR MONROVIA • WIN MACHINE JOE CARL POPULAR AT THE CLAIM BOX • HRTV TO TELEVISE LIVE ECLIPSE FINALISTS JAN. 8 HORSEMEN ADJUST TO TRANSITION IN TRAINING VENUES Horsemen who made Hollywood Park their primary training headquarters are adjusting to the new landscape […]

“Penny & Red” California Film Premiere – January 11

For 40 years, Penny Chenery has told the stories of her champion thoroughbreds, Riva Ridge and Secretariat. Now, she’s ready to tell her own story… The Secretariat Foundation and TROTT (Training Racehorses Off the Track) are pleased to invite you to attend the California premiere screening of her new documentary film, “Penny & Red: the […]

HARD-WORKING TED DI NUNZIO CELEBRATES 100TH BIRTHDAY AT SANTA ANITA, POPULAR CENTURION OFFICIAL DOOR GREETER AT NEARBY NORDSTROM’S

ARCADIA, Calif. (Dec. 29, 2013)–Sunday’s fourth race at Santa Anita, dubbed “Ted Di Nunzio’s 100th Birthday Celebration,” honored the gregarious Di Nunzio, who will mark his 100th birthday on Monday and who works about a half mile from Santa Anita’s main track quarter pole as an official door greeter at Nordstrom Santa Anita, in the […]