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A few months later, Seabiscuit injures his leg. Pollard, still recovering from his own injury, tends to the horse as they both heal. When Seabiscuit is fit enough to race again, Howard brings him back to the Santa Anita Handicap; he is reluctant to allow Pollard to ride and risk crippling himself for life.
The Laffit Pincay Jr. Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. Run at 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles on the dirt, the race is for horses aged three and upward and carries a purse of $200,000. The race was inaugurated in 1935 as the San Antonio Handicap. It has been a Grade II event since 1990, and was ...
At the time of her historic Santa Anita victory, Testa was married and had a 2-year-old daughter. [9] Testa raced competitively as a jockey for two years and had about 100 wins. [ 16 ] She eventually settled in a rural area near Davie, Florida , where she was one of a group of 54 volunteers riding on horseback with a Crime Watch Mounted Patrol ...
From 1985 until 2011 both Hollywood Park and Santa Anita Park Administration carded an event in honor of Ancient Title known as the Ancient Title Handicap. Today the event is known as the Grade II Santa Anita Sprint Championship, run over the same distance as the Palos Verdes Stakes but is held in the fall.
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.
The Santa Anita Assembly Center is located in what is now the Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia, California in Los Angeles County. After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, there was fear that some Japanese Americans may be loyal to the Empire of Japan and Emperor of Japan .
Westfield Santa Anita has 23 buildings and was completed in phases between 1974 and 2009, real estate data provider CoStar said. Current tenants include Nordstrom, Zara, Lululemon, Macy’s and H&M.
The Californian Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California (relocated from the now closed Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California). The Grade II event is open to horses age three and up willing to race one and one-eighth miles (9 furlongs) on the dirt.