By Margaret Ransom The long wait is over for the return of live racing at Santa Anita Park. For the first time since Santa Anita was shut down by the Los Angeles County Health Department after the Mar...
By Margaret Ransom The talented and undefeated Nadal, who shipped in from California for his first start around two turns, faces off against seven other 3-year-odls in the 60th year of the Rebel Stake...
By Margaret Ransom The road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1) continues this weekend, with five California-based fillies set to race a mile in the $200,000 Las Virgenes Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park on Satu...
2020 Kentucky Derby Prep Races: The race formerly known as the Santa Catalina Stakes was renamed the Robert B. Lewis Stakes (G3) in 2007 to honor one of the most beloved owners in thoroughbred racing....
By Richard Rosenblatt A report issued on the fatal breakdown of Mongolian Groom in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic says the death could have been prevented if additional safety measures to dete...
By Margaret Ransom Spiced Perfection, a multiple Grade 1 winner and likely California-bred Horse of the Year, headlines a field of eight distaffers for Saturday’s $200,000 La Canada Stakes (G3) at S...
By Noel Michaels Horse racing fans get the holiday gift they really want – albeit a couple of days late – when the SoCal winter racing season celebrates its traditional post-Christmas opening day ...
By Margaret Ransom The La Brea Stakes (G1) has long served as the filly counterpart to Santa Anita’s opening day feature, the Malibu Stakes (G1), and through the decades since it was first contested...
By Margaret Ransom Santa Anita Park kicks off its annual winter/spring season on Saturday with an 11-race card featuring six graded stakes races and seven overall, highlighted by the Malibu Stakes, La...
By Mike Farrell Santa Claus came early to Southern California, a corner of the racing world in desperate need of glad tidings and good cheer. The jolly old elf dropped off the investigative results of...
