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Holly and David Wilson’s Barraza will be seeking his fourth consecutive win as he heads a solid field of eight older horses going about 6 ½ furlongs down Santa Anita’s hillside turf course in Arcadia, Calif.,  in Sunday’s Grade 3, $100,000 San Simeon Stakes.  Carded as race eight, the San Simeon will serve as the penultimate event in Sunday’s 20 cent Rainbow Pick 6 Jackpot.  

The pacer Belmont Major N and the trotter Baldaquin both set lifetime marks in winning their respective $15,300 featured events on the Tuesday afternoon program at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono. In a race where most of the field was in front at one point or another, the Art Major gelding Belmont Major N was both the first and last leader, getting shuffled to last before mounting a huge stretch charge that carried him to victory in 1:51.3, winning by 1-1/2 lengths with his own last quarter :27...

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The Dragon Again gray horse Gray Dragon made it two straight over 2019 Meadowlands Pace winner Best In Show on Tuesday afternoon (May 18) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, again acting as a pocket rocket to catch the pacesetter, this time in 1:50.1, in one of three $15,300 feature races. Best In Show, who was favoured at 3-5 in his second race of the year to Gray Dragon’s 6-5, made the lead around his archrival in :27.1, then posted fractions of :55 and 1:22.4, the latter coming as Blu Crew...

The Windsong Espoir gelding Clarion Hall made a successful debut for the barn of Gilbert Garcia-Herrera, the leading trainer at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, with driver Anthony Napolitano finding enough room up the inside to reduce the trotter’s mark to 1:54.4 in winning the $12,800 claiming handicap trot Monday (May 17). Clarion Hall got early position then stayed inside and found himself shuffled back through quite a few lead changes, entering the stretch in the difficult fourth-inside ...

Santa Anita: Sunday Mandatory Payout On Rainbow Pick 6 Jackpot Sponsored by: With the middle jewel in racings Triple Crown, the Grade 1 Preakness Stakes, scheduled for next Saturday, Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., has announced a mandatory payout in its popular 20 Rainbow Pick 6 Jackpot the following day, Sunday, May 16. Providing there is no Single Ticket Rainbow 6 winner on Friday or Saturday, and an expected carryover in place heading into next Sunday of more than $500,000, t...

In the middle of a “five race win streak” on Monday (May 10) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, driver George Napolitano Jr. won with the Explosive Matter gelding Lindys Big Bang in 1:55.2 in taking the faster of two $12,800 claiming handicap trot features. Napolitano Jr., the track’s perennial leading driver who won the last two races here on Sunday, sent Lindys Big Bang to the lead under the wire for the first time, and the pair drew away comfortably late in the opener for the meet’s...

Sponsored by: With a mandatory payout in place, Santa Anita track officials project Saturdays total 20 cent Rainbow Pick 6 Jackpot pool could exceed $6 million as the Arcadia, Calif., track will present a blockbuster 11-race card highlighted by the Grade 1, $400,000 Santa Anita Handicap.  Special early first post on Saturday is at 12 noon PT. Saturdays Rainbow 6 will start with race six, which has an approximate post time of 2:45 p.m. PT.  In addition to the Santa Anita Handicap, th...