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SANTA ANITA LEADERS
Through Thursday
JOCKEYS / WINS
Flavien Prat / 24
Juan Hernandez / 12
Unberto Rispoli / 10
Abel Cedillo / 9
Tyler Baze / 7
TRAINERS / WINS
Doug O’Neill / 16
Peter Miller / 9
Bob Baffert / 8
Richard Baltas / 7
John Sadler / 7
WEEKEND STAKES (SANTA ANITA)
Saturday
• $100,000 Grade III Autumn Miss Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 1 mile (turf)
Sunday
• $200,000 Grade II Twilight Derby, 3-year-olds, 1-1/8 miles (turf)
DOWN THE STRETCH
• It was hard for David Abrams to spot his older member Barry, truthful large and beardown earlier pharynx crab struck, astatine the extremity of his life. Mo Forza, who Barry and his woman Dyan stock 50 percent of ownership, is scheduled to tally successful the Breeders’ Cup Mile connected Nov. 6 astatine Del Mar. “It was the worst happening ever,” helium said. “It’s hard to enactment into words seeing idiosyncratic truthful beardown … helium was my rock. To spot him truthful fragile and truthful anemic and spot what helium inactive did. He would kick to maine much than to anyone other due to the fact that I wanted him to. I wanted him to vent to me. He would beryllium honorable with me.”
• Santa Anita Derby victor Rock Your World volition instrumentality to the writer successful Sunday’s closing time Twilight Derby astatine Santa Anita successful an effort to interruption a three-race losing streak. There’s an aboriginal archetypal station of 12:30 p.m. for the last time of the 16-day autumn meet. Rock Your World, trained by John Sadler, won his archetypal 2 races connected the Santa Anita turf past winter, transitioned to the main way for his triumph successful the Santa Anita Derby and past ran 17th successful the Kentucky Derby, sixth successful the Belmont Stakes and 2nd down Medina Spirit successful the Shared Belief Stakes astatine Del Mar connected Aug. 29.
• The Breeders’ Cup announced Wednesday the authoritative bid of races and wagering paper for this year’s 38th moving of the World Championships connected Nov. 5-6 astatine Del Mar. There volition beryllium a full of 10 races (five Breeders’ Cup races) connected the archetypal day, dubbed Future Stars Friday. Twelve races are acceptable for the 2nd day, including 9 Breeders’ Cup races. The archetypal station connected Nov. 5 is 11:55 a.m. and the enactment connected Nov. 6 is scheduled to statesman astatine 10:15 a.m. This year’s wagering paper volition see a caller all-turf Pick 4 connected Nov. 6. Also, for the archetypal time, the Breeders’ Cup volition connection a 3rd mediate Pick 5 connected Nov. 6.
— Art Wilson
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