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Queen Ofthe Temple heads a wide open field of older fillies and mares going a marathon 1 1/2 miles over the Santa Anita turf in Saturday’s $100,000 Astra Stakes.

​2022 TVG Malibu Stakes Betting Odds and Contenders Preview:The final chance for three-year-old dirt males to vie for Grade 1 glory before turning four and having to face older horses comes Monday, December 26, at Santa Anita.? Read it now on numberFire!

Although he’s winless in two tries down Santa Anita’s unique hillside layout, Bran ran second to multiple stakes winner Gregorian Chant

There were bonus-point victories for Connacht and Scarlets over the Bulls and Lions in the United Rugby Championship games played on Friday.

Multiple Grade I winner Gamine heads a field of eight in the $200,000-guaranteed Great Lady M Stakes Monday at Los Alamitos. A Grade II, the Great Lady M is for fillies & mares (3-year-olds) and up at 6 ½ furlongs. It is the eighth of nine races on closing day of the Summer Thoroughbred Festival. Scheduled post time for the main event is 4:28 p.m. Trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert for Michael Lund Petersen, Gamine has won seven of eight and earned $1,286,500. A 4-year-old Into Mischief fil...

Sponsored by: Hit the Road and Florent Geroux come up the inside to win the Kilroe Mile In 2013, in his second year of training on his own, Dan Blacker saddled four runners during Keenelands Spring Meet. “I didnt have the right horses then,” the 39-year-old Blacker said Thursday, the morning after he arrived here with what would qualify as a “right horse” in Hit the Road. The Grade 1 winner looms as one of the favorites for Fridays 33rd running of the $300,000 Makers Mark Mile...

Sponsored by: Hit the Road and Florent Geroux come up the inside to win the Kilroe Mile In a thrilling head and head battle to the wire, trainer Dan Blackers Hit the Road prevailed by a neck over 5-2 favorite Smooth Like Strait, in Saturdays $400,000 Frank E. Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita, providing Blacker, 38, with his first Grade 1 triumph.  Ridden for the first time by eastern-based Florent Geroux, Hit the Road, 4-year-old colt by More Than Ready, out of the U S Ranger mare Highway ...

Smooth Like Strait Tops Competitive Group In Frank Kilroe Mile Sponsored by: Smooth Like Strait winning the Mathis Brothers Mile under Umberto Rispoli In what may be the best betting race of the day, trainer Michael McCarthys Smooth Like Strait heads a deep and competitive field of 10 older horses in Saturdays Grade 1, $400,000 Frank E. Kilroe Mile (turf) at Santa Anita. A winner of the opening day Mathis Brothers Mile on Dec. 26, Cannon Thoroughbreds homebred Smooth Like Strait is a ...

Hit The Road Gives Blacker First Graded Stakes Win In Thunder Road Sponsored by: Hit the Road and Umberto Rispoli winning the Thunder Road Idle since winning a restricted stakes at Del Mar July 10, Hit the Road hit the comeback trail running Saturday at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif., as he strode home to a brilliant 3 ¾-length win in the Grade 3, $100,000 Thunder Road Stakes, providing trainer Dan Blacker with his first-ever graded stakes win.  Ridden to his third consecutive win b...