Gold Cup tops spring-summer Grade 1 schedule
RACE REPLAY IS NOT AVAILABLEARCADIA, Calif. – Santa Anita will run four Grade 1 races led by the $500,000 Gold Cup during its spring-summer meeting, which runs from April 13 to June 24.
The meet will include 32 stakes, including 21 graded stakes. The other Grade 1 races are the $300,000 Gamely Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles on turf May 26; the $400,000 Shoemaker Mile on turf May 28; and the $400,000 Beholder Stakes for fillies and mares at a mile on June 2.
The Shoemaker and Beholder were run on the same afternoon in recent seasons, but this year the Shoemaker will be on Memorial Day, May 28, and the Beholder on the following Saturday, June 2.
Joining the Gamely on May 26 are the Gold Cup at Santa Anita, run at 1 1/4 miles, and the $200,000 Charles Whittingham Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on turf. The May 26 program is one of nine days during the meet with more than one stakes.
Three stakes from last year’s spring-summer meeting have been omitted from the schedule, including two Grade 3, $100,000 races: the Los Angeles Handicap and the Precisionist Stakes. The $75,000 Southern Truce Stakes also won’t be run at the meet this year.
