Santa Anita Park

Stakes schedule and track information for the 2012-13 Santa Anita Park winter/spring meet. Full Story >>
June 13, 2013

Santa Anita is planning renovations to its turf club, grandstand and stable area during the second half of the summer, track president George Haines said on Thursday.

April 10, 2013

Joy Scott's raw statistics as a jockey describe a marginal player in a dangerous game, taking risks for little reward. But there are more people around the racetrack like Scott than not.

March 08, 2013

Two months into his return, Gary Stevens has pretty much dismissed all suspicions that his comeback was an ego-driven publicity stunt. The kid can ride.

February 21, 2013

For those keeping score at home, and you know who you are, the new Kentucky Derby eligibility system kicks into high gear on Saturday when the Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream and the Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds each offers 85 points spread ...

February 07, 2013

Neither Doug O'Neill, trainer of Richard's Kid, nor Shug McGaughey, the trainer of Point of Entry, is looking beyond Saturday's San Marcos Stakes and Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap towards a race in Dubai in March.

February 01, 2013

The highly accomplished Game On Dude is now 6, an age at which many of history’s best geldings were still in their prime.

January 31, 2013

Trainer Ron McAnally's Argentine import Suggestive Boy returns to his best game in the one-mile Arcadia Handicap on Santa Anita's turf course.

November 04, 2012

After a year full of disappointments, the 2012 racing season came to a climax in the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita on Saturday, with Game On Dude and Wise Dan trying to prove - in separate races - that they deserved the Eclipse Award as Horse of the Year.

November 02, 2012

There is no known roster of “best trainers without a Horse of the Year,” but there’s little doubt Claude R McGaughey III, the man they call Shug, would be high on anyone’s list.

When Game On Dude runs in the Breeders’ Cup Classic Saturday, he can probably lock up the Horse of the Year title with a victory. Yet the nation’s richest and most significant race won’t necessarily be the dramatic high point in two days of racing at ...