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Earls Rock Shortens Up, Wins Baffle Stakes At Santa Anita Sponsored by: Irish-bred Earls Rock and Flavien Prat (right) defeat Beer Can Man in the Baffle Stakes A lights-out maiden winner going a flat mile on turf in his U.S. debut Jan. 9, Irish-bred Earls Rock cut back in distance and further enhanced his status as an up-and-coming star with an impressive three-quarter length tally in Friday's $75,000 Baffle Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.  Trained by Phil D'Amato and ridden by Flavien Prat, Earls Rock rallied from off the pace to cover 6 ½ furlongs on turf in 1:16.15. Br...

Grade 2 Winner Sharp Samurai Retired To Old Friends Sponsored by: Sharp Samurai and jockey Gary Stevens win the Grade III, $150,000 La Jolla Handicap, Sunday, August 6, 2017 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Del Mar CA.© BENOIT PHOTO Multiple Grade 2 winner Sharp Samurai has been retired from racing, and he will take up residence at Old Friends Equine Retirement in Georgetown, Ky., BloodHorse reports. The 7-year-old First Samurai gelding finished his on-track career with earnings of $1,111,270, winning eight of 23 starts. A west-coast mainstay, his most notable triumphs came in the Gra...

Little more than bragging rights go along with the honor of being the Las Vegas favorite on New Year’s Day to win four (or more) months later in the Derby. Churchill Downs maintains such a list of what it still calls winter-book favorites. It goes back to 1979, when Spectacular Bid had the honor — and won the roses. In the 41 runnings since, only Street Sense in 2007 has held that distinction and still cashed in May. Unless something drastic happens by the end of the week, Essential Quality will be the Jan. 1 favorite at William Hill Nevada, carrying odds of 8-1. Life Is Good will be shor...

By Margaret Ransom Courtesy of Santa Anita press release A talent-filled opening day program on Saturday at Santa Anita Park will help usher out a year of horse racing that has been unpredictable, turbulent and downright implausible, and hopefully foreshadow a 2021 that will mark a return to some semblance of normalcy. Once again, the $300,000 Runhappy Malibu Stakes (G1) is the centerpiece of an 11-race card that features an additional five stakes races and has drawn a standout field of six sophomores looking for a win in the final Grade 1 of the year in North America. A year ago, the first d...

Las Vegas First, merry Christmas. Here is hoping it bears some resemblance to a positive normal. The racing year reaches a final climax Saturday. Rather than a punctuation mark on 2020 that sounds like the loser horns on “The Price Is Right,” it actually might be a clarion call for 2021. Presuming a winter storm or the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health do not re-enact any of last season’s delays, Santa Anita will host the final significant day of North American racing before horses turn another year older next Friday. The $300,000 Grade 1 Malibu will be the last big dance f...