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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...

Looking for Longshots in the Malibu and La Brea Looking for Longshots in the Malibu and La Brea 23 December, 2020 11:26 PM By J. Keeler Johnson ("Keelerman") Twitter: @J_Keelerman Horse racing in the U.S. will take its annual day off on Friday, Christmas Day. But the sport will return with a bang on Saturday when Santa Anita Park opens for its prestigious winter meet. Three Grade 1 races are on the schedule, including the $300,000 Malibu (G1) and the $300,000 La Brea (G1). These important 7-furlong sprints serve as final opportunities for elite 3-year-olds to face their own age group before...

Sponsored by: Charlatan Charlatan, one in a battalion of bluebloods based in Bob Baffert's barn, faces off against Nashville in the Grade 1 Runhappy Malibu Stakes on opening day, Saturday, Dec. 26, the marquee event as historic Santa Anita ushers in its 84th season of world-class racing. This year's Malibu is arguably one of the most anticipated in the event's 70 runnings, pitting two immensely talented sons of 2004 Eclipse Award champion male sprinter Speightstown against one another. The Malibu has been won in the past by a Who's Who of Thoroughbreds, among them Runhappy (2015), F...

Sponsored by: Mucho Gusto, under Irad Ortiz Jr., in the Gulfstream Park winner's circle after the 2020 Pegasus World Cup A winner of more than $3.1 million this year, Bob Baffert's Mucho Gusto, idle since Feb. 29, heads a field of eight 3-year-olds and up going a mile and one sixteenth in Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 San Antonio Stakes at Santa Anita. One of five graded stakes on an 11-race program, the San Antonio, long a traditional prep to the G1 Santa Anita Handicap, will be contested for the 83rd time on Saturday. A winner of the G` Pegasus World Cup Invitational two starts ba...