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The last marquee thoroughbred racing event of the year is upon us with the 2023 Breeders’ Cup. The event takes place Friday, Nov. 3 and Saturday, Nov. 4 at Santa Anita Park in California, and ...
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. [3] [4]
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. In 1982 with a massive crowd of 69,293 the event was won by Chinook Pass who easily won by three lengths and equaled the track record of 1:07 2 ⁄ 5 . [ 16 ]
In 1942, racing at Santa Anita was suspended due to the Second World War. Santa Anita was used as an assembly center for Japanese Americans excluded from the West Coast. [9] For several months in 1942, over 18,000 people lived in horse stables and military-style barracks constructed on the site, including actor George Takei, then a young boy.
Santa Anita will return to a fourth day of weekly racing starting with its winter-spring meet, adding 26 extra racing days. TSG is budgeting $23.2 million to improve barns in Santa Anita's stable ...
The San Felipe Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.It is a Grade II event open to three-year-old horses. . Normally held in early -March, it is raced at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles (8 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlongs) on dirt and currently offers a purse of $40
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Santa Anita Park was closed for live racing after the L.A. County Health Department deemed it a nonessential business amid the COVID-19 pandemic.