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Sponsored by: Ride a Comet winning the Del Mar Derby in 2018 There are only three American graded stakes races this weekend, the Tropical Turf Stakes at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., and the La Canada and Las Cienegas Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. All are Grade 3 events run on Saturday. Here is a brief look at all three races. All times are Eastern. Saturday, Jan. 9 4:49 p.m. – $100,000 Tropical Turf Stakes at Gulfstream Park The Tropical Turf, for 4-year-olds and upward going one mile on turf, features the return of Analyze It, coming off a career worst pe...

Training Horses Is Still A Work Of Art For Sherman Sponsored by: Trainer Art Sherman The New Year is here and one of racing's undisputed good guys, Art Sherman, welcomed it in fine fettle as he prepares to turn 84 on Feb. 17. In 2016, Sherman was named winner of the Big Sport of Turfdom Award, awarded annually by the Turf Publicists of America honoring a “person or group of people who enhance coverage of Thoroughbred racing through cooperation with media and racing publicists.” Sherman, who gained fame and fortune most trainers can only dream about when California Chrome burst o...

Equibase Analysis: Never Be Enough Poised To Upset La Canada Sponsored by: Never Be Enough © Benoit Photo Saturday's running of the Grade 3, $100,000 La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita Park features a field of seven mares, most of which have made their mark in similar stakes recently. Leading the field in terms of career earnings is Hard Not to Love, who won the one-turn Grade 2 Santa Monica Stakes 11 months ago and who has three runner-up finishes in graded stakes since, most recently in the G2 Zenyatta Stakes last fall. Fighting Mad is a two-time G1 winner, having captured the Santa...

Fighting Mad Will Try To Go All The Way In Contentious Edition Of La Cañada Sponsored by: Fighting Mad went to the front at the start and was never headed in the Clement L. Hirsch Stakes Idle since third as the odds-on favorite in the Grade 2 Zenyatta Stakes on Sept. 27, Bob Baffert's speedy Fighting Mad heads a field of seven older fillies and mares going a mile and one sixteenth in Saturday's G3, $200,000 La Cañada Stakes at Santa Anita. While Fighting Mad will hope to control the early pace, the John Shirreffs-trained Hard Not to Love, a G1 winner who was second in the Zenyatt...