2 years ago
299
SANTA ANITA LEADERS
(Final 2020-21 standings)
JOCKEYS / WINS
Flavien Prat / 124
Juan Hernandez / 92
Umberto Rispoli / 71
Abel Cedillo / 64
Tyler Baze / 39
TRAINERS / WINS
Philip D’Amato / 52
Peter Miller / 45
Bob Baffert / 43
Doug O’Neill / 37
John Sadler / 32
STAKES SCHEDULE AT SANTA ANITA
Sunday
• $300,000 Grade I Malibu Stakes, 3-year-olds, 7 furlongs
• $300,000 Grade I La Brea Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 7 furlongs
• $300,000 Grade I American Oaks, 3-year-old fillies, 1 1/4 miles (turf)
• $200,000 Grade II San Antonio Stakes, 3-year-olds and up, 1 1/16 miles
• $200,000 Grade II San Gabriel Stakes, 3-year-olds and up, 1 1/8 miles (turf)
• $200,000 Grade II Mathis Mile, 3-year-olds and up, 1 mile (turf)
DOWN THE STRETCH
• Trainer Doug O’Neill says Hot Rod Charlie already ranks among the apical horses he’s trained. “To me, he’s that hard hat, luncheon pail, bluish collar-type of equine that ranks close up there,” helium said. “I don’t privation to jinx it oregon enactment excessively overmuch unit connected him, but he’s kinda got immoderate Lava Man-ish ways astir him. It’s truthful large that Lava Man accompanies him beauteous overmuch each wherever helium goes and possibly immoderate of his mannerisms and pugnacious bluish collar-ish comes from being with Lava Man connected a day-in, day-out basis.”
• Count John Sadler among the section horsemen who welcomes Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez to the Southland. “He rode a victor for maine astatine Del Mar a mates of summers agone and I’ll perfectly beryllium trying to get him connected immoderate of my horses,” the 65-year-old Long Beach autochthonal said. “But I mightiness person to limb wrestle (Bob) Baffert due to the fact that helium rides a batch of Baffert horses. He’s a large summation to our colony, particularly if you’ve been astir him astatine all, he’s a existent man and a consummate professional. He’s going to bash good due to the fact that of what helium stands for.”
• The large Beholder’s archetypal foal to race, Q B One, is scheduled to marque his debut successful Sunday’s 4th contention astatine 6 1/2 furlongs for trainer Richard Mandella astatine Santa Anita. Q B One, a lad of Uncle Mo, drew the No. 4 station presumption and volition beryllium ridden by Kyle Frey. “He trains bully and I deliberation racing volition marque him better,” Mandella told Ed Golden of Santa Anita publicity. “I don’t cognize that his caput is truly connected it yet. We’ll get a contention into him and I’d expect going abbreviated he’ll astir apt settee backmost and decorativeness well, getting him started for amended things down the road.”
— Art Wilson
English (US) ·