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Santa Anita opens its 48-day Traditional Meet on Friday, Dec. 26, with six main stakes on the cardboard. The match will run till April fifth, with 81 stakes value $11.75 million at stake.
The Traditional Meet adopted by the Hollywood Meet by June 14 totals 78 race days. Highlights embody the newly named G2 Lucas Stakes on February seventh, the Santa Anita Handicap (G1) on March seventh and the Santa Anita Derby (G1) on April 4th.
In a single day purses total elevated by 5% over final season. The maiden particular weight race can be elevated to $70,000. Two stakes that weren’t raced final yr will return.
The opening spherical on December twenty sixth will characteristic the 3-year-old mare Malibu (G1) and the 3-year-old filly La Brea (G1), each of which can be raced over seven furlongs on dust. The American Oaks (G1) is run over 1 1/4 miles on turf. The cardboard additionally contains the 1 1/16-mile Lafitte Pinkay Junior (G2) on dust, the Matisse Smile (G2) for 3-year-olds on turf, and the 1 1/8-mile San Gabriel Stakes (G3) on turf.
The March 7 Santa Anita Handicap card additionally contains the 3-year-old San Felipe Stakes (G2), the Frank E. Kilro Mile (G1) on turf and the Beholder Mile (G1).
San Felipe (G2) falls below Santa Anita’s sequence of 3-year-old horses aiming for the Triple Crown. The street begins on January tenth with the seven-furlong San Vicente (G2). Massive Cap Day on Feb. 7 can be adopted by the 1-mile Robert B. Lewis (G3), 1 1/16-mile San Felipe (G2) and concludes with the 1 1/8-mile Santa Anita Derby (G1) on April 4.
Journalism gained the Santa Anita Derby and San Felipe Stakes final season with coach Michael McCarthy. Journalism went on to win the Preakness Stakes and positioned second within the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes.
The April 4 Santa Anita Derby card additionally contains the Santa Anita Oaks (G2), the Monrovia (G3) for fillies and mares on a hillside turf course, the Echo Eddy Stakes and the Night Jewel Stakes for California-bred or stallion horses.
California-bred horses stay an integral a part of Santa Anita’s program. The schedule contains 14 stakes unique to state-bred horses. California Cup Day on January seventeenth will characteristic 5 stakes, led by the California Cup Derby and California Cup Oaks. California Gold Rush Day, Might 23, will characteristic 5 extra stakes, led by the Snowchief Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on 1 1/8 miles of turf and the Melea Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on 1 1/16 miles of dust.
Traditional Meet closes on April fifth. After every week’s hiatus, the 30-day Hollywood meet begins on April seventeenth. The Might twenty fifth Memorial Day card contains the Shoemaker Mile (G1), Gamely Stakes (G1) and Hollywood Gold Cup (G2).
The Hollywood Meet concludes June 14 with the 87th San Juan Capistrano Stakes (G3) for ages 3 and up on turf, 1 3/4 miles.
