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Santa Anita Horse Racing Picks for Friday 2/25/22:There are eight races at Santa Anita Park on Friday. Which horses should you bet on at FanDuel Racing?? Read it now on numberFire!

Santa Anita Horse Racing Picks for Friday 2/18/22:There are seven races at Santa Anita Park Thursday. Which horses should you bet on at FanDuel Racing?? Read it now on numberFire!

Classy Grade 1 winner Going to Vegas is back to defend her title in Saturday’s Grade 3, $125,000 Santa Ana Stakes

There were 10 winning tickets in Friday’s Stronach 5 with each worth $12,432.40. The wager is based on races at Laurel Park, Gulfstream Park, Santa Anita and Golden Gate Fields.

Brickyard Ride heads a field of eight older California-breds going about 6 ½ furlongs down the hillside turf course in Sunday’s $100,000 Sensational Star Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.

Prat and Rispoli are set to start riding in New York after the Santa Anita Derby. Both said they are leaving southern California for better top-level stakes opportunities.

In a thrilling stretch duel, C R K Stable’s Express Train prevailed by a head over midwestern shipper Warrant in Saturday’s 85th   running of the Grade 1, $650,000 Santa Anita Handicap Presented by Yaamava’ Resort and Casino at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.  Once again a finalist for Racing’s Hall of Fame, trainer John Shirreffs notched his first-ever Big ’Cap victory while Victor Espinoza got his third win  in North America’s longest continually run “hundred grander.”

Idle since romping to a 4 ¾ length tally in the G2 Chandelier Stakes on Oct. 1, Phil D’Amato’s Ain’t Easy returns in the Santa Ysabel.

“When you think of Santa Anita, the race that comes to mind is always the Santa Anita Handicap,” Shirreffs said.

Atop his game at age seven, trainer Phil D’Amato’s Count Again rates top billing in Saturday’s Frank E. Kilroe Mile