Horse racing notes: Santa Anita downhill turf course is back

DEL MAR LEADERS

(Final standings)

JOCKEYS / WINS

Flavien Prat / 47

Juan Hernandez / 32

Abel Cedillo / 29

Umberto Rispoli / 27

Joe Bravo / 21

TRAINERS / WINS

Peter Miller / 26

Bob Baffert / 20

John Sadler / 18

Philip D’Amato / 15

Two tied / 14

WEEKEND STAKES AT LOS ALAMITOS

Saturday

• $75,000 Beverly J. Lewis Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 6 furlongsSunday

• $75,000 E.B. Johnston Stakes, 3-year-olds and up bred successful CA, 1 mile

DOWN THE STRETCH

• Great quality for fans of Santa Anita’s downhill turf course: Track officials announced Wednesday they are bringing backmost 6 1/2-furlong turf sprints down the elevation for the autumn conscionable that begins Oct. 1. Four stakes races, including the Grade II Eddie D. Stakes connected opening day, volition beryllium tally down the elevation this autumn successful summation to “selected allowance races” during the 16-day meet. “Our fans, horsemen and Eddie Delahoussaye himself person told america they’d emotion to spot a instrumentality to racing down this European-style course, which has been unsocial to Santa Anita for much than six decades,” Aidan Butler, COO of racing operations for 1/ST Racing, said successful a statement.

• The Los Angeles County Fair conscionable astatine Los Alamitos begins Friday and runs done Sept. 26. The 10-day conscionable volition see racing connected a Friday-Sunday ground the archetypal 2 weeks and Thursday-Sunday the last week. First station is 1 p.m. each day. The conscionable volition see 5 stakes races worthy a combined $400,000. Opening play volition see a brace of $75,000 stakes – the Beverly J. Lewis connected Saturday for 3-year-old fillies astatine 6 furlongs and the E.B. Johnston for Cal-breds 3-year-olds and up Sunday astatine 1 mile. The Pick Six during the conscionable volition beryllium a $2 wager with the accepted 70%-30% split.

• Hronis Racing, led by brothers Kosta and Pete Hronis, has been successful the crippled since 2010 aft hooking up with trainer John Sadler. The Sadler-Hronis squad has enjoyed overmuch occurrence unneurotic and presently has a imaginable standout successful 3-year-old colt Flightline. Kosta Hronis tells the communicative of however owners and trainer hooked up. “Actually, we didn’t get to prime John. John picked us,” helium said. “We didn’t interrogation John. John interviewed us, truthful we felt precise blessed that idiosyncratic similar John Sadler would instrumentality a mates of workplace boys from Bakersfield that wanted to assertion 1 horse. Now present we are today.”

— Art Wilson