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Santa Anita Guarantees Potential $1M Rainbow Payout Saturday
ARCADIA, Calif.—With large, competitive fields the order of the day, Santa Anita will guarantee a $1 million payout if there is a Single Ticket winner in the track’s 20 cent Rainbow Pick Six on Saturday. As the track embarks upon its penultimate Autumn Meet weekend, 10 races, including seven stakes will be offered.
Saturday’s Rainbow Six, which will be comprised of races five through 10, has attracted 53 entries, putting average field size for the Rainbow Six at just under nine runners per race.
Approximate post time for Saturday’s fifth race is at 3:08 p.m. PT. Saturday’s fifth, a one m
From there, races six through 10 are all stakes, with the $175,000 Golden State Juvenile Fillies at seven furlongs, going as race six with a field of seven.
The Grade II, $200,000 Twilight Derby, which drew a field of nine at a mile and one eighth on turf, has been carded as race seven.
Race eight is the $175,000 Golden State Juvenile, with seven horses set to go seven furlongs.
Saturday’s ninth race is the $100,000 Senator Ken Maddy Stakes, with 10 three-year-olds and up set to go about 6 ½ furlongs down the hillside turf course.
Saturday’s card figures to end with a crescendo, as 12 sophomore fillies will go one mile on turf in the Grade III, $100,000 Autumn Miss Stakes.
With the two-day Breeders’ Cup World Championships set for Nov. 4 and 5 from Keeneland, Santa Anita’s 18-day Autumn Meet will close on Sunday, Nov. 6.
For entries and complete morning line information regarding Saturday’s 10-race card, fans are encouraged to visit Equibase.com, or santaanita.com or to call (626) 574-RACE.
FINISH LINES: Eclipse Award champion Ce Ce, winner of last year’s Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint for owner/breeder Bo Hirsch and trainer Michael McCarthy, worked four furlongs this morning at Santa Anita in 47.80 under regular rider Victor Espinoza for defense of her crown Nov. 5 at Keeneland. Ce Ce leaves Sunday for Kentucky . . .
Hit the Road, winner of last year’s Grade I Frank E. Kilroe Mile but eighth in his most recent start, the Grade I Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational at Gulfstream Park last Jan. 29, went four furlongs breezing on the training track in 49.60 for Dan Blacker. In all there were 108 recorded workouts, 32 on the training track . . . Jockey Hector Berrios has a busy Saturday in store as agent Michael Burns has booked the 35-year-old native of Chile to ride in nine of the 10 races, missing only the Goldikova which drew a six-horse field . . .
Trainer Mike Puype is host Tom Quigley’s seminar guest today, while clocker Andy Harrington does honors Saturday, each day at 11:50 a.m. . . . Santa Anita’s admission gates will open early next Friday and Saturday to accommodate undercard wagering over the two-day Breeders’ Cup World Championships from Keeneland. Admission gates will open on Friday, Nov. 4 at 8:30 a.m. and on Classic Day, Nov. 5, at 7 a.m. . . . Closing day of Santa Anita’s current 18-day Autumn Meet is Sunday, Nov. 6.
Barn Notes by Ed Golden
