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The Santa Anita Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in early March at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.It is a Grade I race for horses four years old and up [1] and was once considered the most important race for older horses in North America during the winter racing season.
To run at Santa Anita on Dec. 26, they would have to ship the horse to the track in early December. With that comes all the expenses of having an assistant trainer and groom here for almost a month.
Santa Anita Handicap [f] I $401,000 4&up open 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles: Dirt Santa Anita Park 3 March 2024 Frank E. Kilroe Mile [f] I $301,500 4&up open 1 mile: Turf Santa Anita Park 3 March 2024 San Felipe Stakes [f] II $294,000 3yo open 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles: Dirt Santa Anita Park 3 March 2024 Buena Vista Stakes [f] II $202,000 4&up f&m 1 mile: Turf ...
In 2017 the race was run once in February, and then again on December 26 (opening day of the Santa Anita winter-spring meet) to serve as a prep race for the Pegasus World Cup. [ 2 ] In November 2024 Santa Anita renamed the race in honor of Hall of Fame jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. , who won the San Antonio five times over three decades.
Mystik Dan had to make a 1,900-mile van ride to Santa Anita to run in the Malibu Stakes. He's the first Derby winner to race at Santa Anita as a 3-year-old since 1997.
Prosperity continued at Santa Anita throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In 1984, Santa Anita hosted the equestrian events at the 1984 Olympics, [14] and in 1985, the track set an attendance record of 85,527 people on Santa Anita Handicap Day. Recognizing the potential revenue boon to the State of California, the California Legislature expanded ...
Santa Anita is hosting the two-day world championships for a record 11th time, and the first since 2019. That year Mongolian Groom suffered a fatal leg injury in the Classic and had to be euthanized.
The event was inaugurated on 18 October 1969 as the Volante Handicap at the Oak Tree Racing Association meeting at Santa Anita Park and was won by the Mrs. Howard B. Keck's entry Tell who was ridden by US Hall of Fame jockey Bill Shoemaker carrying the imposing weight of 130 pounds by 3 ⁄ 4 of a length over Noholme Jr. in a time of 1:46 4 ⁄ 5. [1]