California Crown: Subsanador Drills 3f Wednesday
+ 16-Day Autumn Meet Starts Friday With 9-Race Card
+ Popular $1 Coast-To-Coast Pick 5 Returns Saturday
Santa Anita Stable Notes By Victor Ryan
ARCADIA, Calif.—Horseplayers will have an array of special wagering options this weekend coinciding with the first-ever California Crown Day on Saturday. Among the special added wagers are an All-Stakes Pick 5 on Saturday, a pair of two-day All-Stakes Daily Doubles, a two-day All-Stakes Pick 4 and two day All-Stakes Pick 6 linking stakes races on Saturday and Sunday. Each of the special wagers features a player-friendly 15 percent takeout rate.
The two-day, All-Stakes Daily Doubles are $5 minimum wagers. The first combines Saturday’s GII, $750,000 California Crown Eddie D with Sunday’s GII Santa Anita Sprint Championship. The second combines Saturday’s GI, $1 million California Crown with Sunday’s GII Zenyatta Stakes.
On California Crown Day Saturday, the All-Stakes Pick 5 consists of the Unzip Me (race 5), California Crown John Henry (race 7), California Crown Eddie D (race 8), California Crown (race 9) and City of Hope Mile (race 10).
The two-day, All Stakes Pick 6 is a $1 minimum wager. It includes Saturday’s Unzip Me, City of Hope Mile, California Crown John Henry Turf, California Crown Eddie D and California Crown with Sunday’s Santa Anita Sprint Championship and Zenyatta Stakes.
The two-day All Stakes Pick 4 is a $2 minimum wager. It comprises of the California Crown John Henry Turf and California Crown with Sunday’s Santa Anita Sprint Championship and Zenyatta
California Crown: Subsanador Works 3f Wednesday For Mandella
Three days ahead of Saturday’s Grade I, $1 million California Crown presented by SirDavis American Whisky, Subsanador was clocked working three furlongs in 37.80 seconds for Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella. Aboard for the move Wednesday was Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith, who also has the call on Saturday.
“He felt great out there,” Smith said.
Subsanador, an import from Argentina, is coming off his first U.S. stakes win in the GIII Philip H. Iselin at Monmouth Park going 1 1/16 miles Aug. 17. In his three previous U.S. starts, all at Santa Anita, the 5-year-old horse by Fortify was fourth in the GII San Antonio last December, second by a head in the GI Santa Anita Handicap in March and fourth in the GII Hollywood Gold Cup in May.
In the Iselin, which was Subsanador’s second start for Mandella, the Argentina-bred appeared to put it all together. He stalked a moderate pace before quickening to the lead and then ultimately winning while being ridden-out by 1 ¼ lengths.
The first-ever California Crown goes as the ninth race on a 10-race card Saturday. It is a “win and you’re in” for the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar Nov. 2. Post time for the California Crown is set for 4:40 p.m. PT. The race will be aired live on CNBCand HipicaTV and also streamed on Peacock.
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A nine-race card Friday starting at 1 p.m. kicks off Santa Anita’s 16-day Autumn Meet…
The popular $1 Coast-to-Coast Pick 5 featuring a player-friendly 15 percent takeout returns Saturday. The wager, which combines races from Santa Anita and Gulfstream Park, will be offered every Saturday and Sunday during Santa Anita’s Autumn Meet, which concludes Oct. 27. Saturday’s Coast-to-Coast Pick 5 starts at 2:08 p.m. PT with the ninth race from Gulfstream. The sequence also includes the California Crown John Henry Turf presented by 1/ST Bet, California Crown Eddie D presented by FanDuel and City of Hope Mile from Santa Anita…
The sale-topper at Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton California fall yearling sale was a colt by Stay Thirsty, who sold to John Maroney for $250,000. The colt, consigned by Loveacres Ranch as agent, is a full brother to stakes winner Finneus and half-brother to stakes winner Fi Fi Pharoah …
Jockeys Tiago Pereira and Santiago Gonzalez are now represented by agent Craig Stephen…Agent Ryan Glatthas taken the book of Hall of Fame jockey Victor Espinoza…Apprentice jockey Serafin Carmona is represented by agent Chuck Costanzo
