Current Tag: Santa Anita
Under The Stars gets her wish with Summer Oaks win
POSTED: June 12, 2022
Leading Jock Hernandez rings up his 100th win, 22 in stakes ARCADIA, Calif.—In her first start for trainer Sean McCarthy, Under the Stars broke cleanly from the gate,...
D'Amato eyes 3rd straight San Juan victory
POSTED: June 12, 2022
Shirreffs hopes the beat goes on for Lady TFlightline is 'an equine version of Roy Hobbs'A winning saturday for Cedillo & Alexander D’AMATO SEEKS THIRD...
D’Amato’s Desert Dawn Heads Sunday’s Grade II, $200,000 Summertime Oaks
POSTED: June 10, 2022
ARCADIA, Calif.—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...
Irish-Bred Balnikhov ready to star in the $100,000 Cinema Stakes
POSTED: June 1, 2022
ARCADIA, Calif. (June 1, 2022)—One of leading trainer Phil D’Amato’s seemingly endless line of talented Irish-breds, Balnikhov returns to Santa Anita and heads Saturday’s $100,000...
There Goes Harvard graduates top of the class in GI Hollywood Gold Cup
POSTED: May 30, 2022
ARCADIA, Calif.—Three-time Eclipse Award winning jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr., cast in the role of a hired gun, orchestrated a brilliant one length victory by longshot There...
Classy French-Bred Bran Takes the $100,000 Daytona Stakes
POSTED: May 29, 2022
ARCADIA, Calif. –In control of the early pace, John Sadler’s classy French-bred Bran was never seriously challenged as he held off longshot Majestic Eagle late...
American Theorem Rallies To Take Grade II, $200,000 Triple Bend Stakes
POSTED: May 29, 2022
ARCADIA, Calif.–Beaten 50 lengths in his last three starts, all stakes, at distances of a mile and one eighth and a mile and one quarter,...
Carmelita’s Man Rallies from Last to Victory in Crystal Water
POSTED: May 28, 2022
Race Is Part Of Lucrative CTBA-Sponsored Golden State SeriesARCADIA, Calif.—Despite a soft early pace, favored Carmalita’s Man rallied from last to take Saturday’s $100,000 Crystal Water Stakes...
Santa Anita Memorial Day, Three Grade 1's
POSTED: May 28, 2022
On this episode of Past the Wire's podcast, Gate to Wire our hosts Michael Vale and Jonathan Stettin take a look at the three Grade 1 stakes...