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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 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...