SANTA ANITA LEADERS
(Through Sunday)
Jockeys / Wins
Juan Hernandez / 18
Umberto Rispoli / 15
Antonio Fresu / 11
Tyler Baze / 7
Hector Berrios / 7
Trainers / Wins
Phil D’Amato / 13
George Papaprodromou / 12
Bob Baffert / 11
Doug O’Neill / 8
Mark Glatt / 6
Michael McCarthy / 6
WEEKEND STAKES
SANTA ANITA
Friday
• $85,000 Anoakia Stakes, 2-year-old fillies, 6 furlongs
Saturday
• $200,000, Grade II Twilight Derby, 3-year-olds, 1⅛ miles on turf
Sunday
• $100,000, Grade III Autumn Miss Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 1 mile on turf
LOS ALAMITOS
Saturday
• $100,000 Wild West Futurity, 2-year-old quarter horses, 350 yards
Sunday
• $1 million, Grade I Golden State Million Futurity, 2-year-olds, 400 yards
DOWN THE STRETCH
• Closing weekend of the Santa Anita fall meet features the Twilight Derby on Saturday. Stay Hot (Antonio Fresu riding), winner of four of six lower-level stakes, seeks his first Grade II and first 1⅛-mile victory for trainer Peter Eurton after running a sharp second in the Del Mar Derby at this level and distance.
• The Anoakia Stakes will be run Friday after drawing too few entries to be held as scheduled last Sunday. Bob Baffert trains three of the five 2-year-old fillies in the 6-furlong sprint, including Grade III runner-up Casalu (Martin Garcia) and 10-length debut winner Silent Law (Juan Hernandez).
• Santa Anita’s Friday card offers a double carryover in the pick 6, on races 4-9. After nobody combined all six winners on Saturday or Sunday, the carryover is $153,104.78, and the track projects the pool to grow to more than $750,000.
• In Los Alamitos night racing, fastest qualifier American Dreamin is favored in Sunday’s $1 million Golden State Million Futurity for leading quarter-horse jockey Armando Cervantes, trainer Monte Arrossa and owner Dunn Ranch. The 2-year-old filly can give Dunn Ranch its third futurity of 2024. Up to Party won the Ed Burke Million Futurity and PCAHRA Breeders Futurity and is pointing for the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity trials Nov. 24.
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• In one of the weirder award announcements, Luan Machado was named Jockey of the week for Oct. 14-20 by the Jockeys’ Guild. Machado won two Grade III stakes at Keeneland last weekend, with Brunacini in the Perryville and Chop Chop in the Dowager Stakes. But the previous Wednesday he’d made an embarrassing error, costing Ultimate Strike a maiden win – and the horse’s bettors a 13-1 payoff – by easing up at the wrong finish line. The Jockeys’ Guild news release called Machado’s week “an example of the highs and lows of race riding.” The satirical Racing Onion tweeted: “Even we couldn’t come up with this one.”
— Kevin Modesti