Tag: california racing

By Margaret Ransom The road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1) continues this weekend, with five California-based fillies set to race a mile in the $200,000 Las Virgenes Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park on Saturday. …

By Noel Michaels Horse racing fans get the holiday gift they really want – albeit a couple of days late – when the SoCal winter racing season celebrates its traditional post-Christmas opening day – this …

By Margaret Ransom The La Brea Stakes (G1) has long served as the filly counterpart to Santa Anita’s opening day feature, the Malibu Stakes (G1), and through the decades since it was first contested in …

By Mike Farrell Santa Claus came early to Southern California, a corner of the racing world in desperate need of glad tidings and good cheer. The jolly old elf dropped off the investigative results of …

By Margaret Ransom Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer returns to Del Mar on Saturday for the first time after a two-week banishment, and sends out 7-5 morning-line favorite Vasilika in the $200,000 Yellow Ribbon …

The San Diego Handicap (G2) is the major local prep race for Del Mar’s signature event, the $1 million Pacific Classic (G1) , but long before Cal-bred fan favorite Best Pal won the inaugural Classic …

Thoroughbred racing’s Summer Swing is on: it’s opening day on Thursday at Saratoga Race Course in historic Saratoga Springs, New York, and six days later the gates spring open at Del Mar – the California …