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Sponsored by: Fox Hill Farms' Jolie Olimpica and jockey Mike Smith winning the Monrovia Stakes on Santa Anita's turf course In what appears to be a completely wide-open affair at six furlongs on turf, classy Bob and Jackie looks to rate a big chance cutting back in distance for Richard Baltas as he faces sharp recent winner Gregorian Chant, defending champ Cistron and Brazilian-bred Jolie Olimpica, who will be facing males for the first time in North America in Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 San Simeon Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. Second, beaten 3 ¾ lengths as the 2-1 fav...

With Goat In Tow, North County Guy Ships To Santa Anita, Captures Unusual Heat Turf Classic Sponsored by: North County Guy scores a hard-fought neck victory over Heck Yeah under Mario Gutierrez Content to sit well off the early pace, North County Guy wheeled four-wide at the top of the stretch en route to a hard-earned neck victory in Saturday's $200,000 Unusual Heat Turf Classic at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.  Trained by Richard Baltas and ridden by Mario Gutierrez, North County Guy, a 6-year-old gelding by The Pamplemousse, got a mile and one eighth in 1:46.34 on firm turf. P...

Sponsored by: Anoakia Stakes winner Kalypso is one of four runners from the barn of trainer Bob Baffert entered in Sunday's Santa Ynez Stakes for 3-year-old fillies In a race that as much as anything else underscores the depth of the Bob Baffert stable, his stakes winning Kalypso, who will shorten up out of a second-place effort in a Grade 1 stakes, appears the tepid choice among a field of seven sophomore fillies going seven panels in Sunday's Grade 2, $200,000 Santa Ynez Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. Baffert, who will send out a total of four fillies in the Santa Ynez, ...

Sponsored by: Bob Baffert-trained Life Is Good won a Nov. 22 maiden race at Del Mar by 9 1/2 lengths A dazzling 9 ½ length maiden winner in his first start, Bob Baffert's Life Is Good will no doubt be a short priced favorite as he stretches out to a flat mile and heads a field of five sophomores in Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Sham Stakes at Santa Anita. Named in honor of the winner of the 1973 Santa Anita Derby, the Sham winner will receive 10 Kentucky Derby qualifying points, with four to second, two to third and one Derby qualifying point to the fourth place finisher. Off at 1-5...