Rain cancels Sunday card at Santa Anita

Santa Anita has cancelled Sunday’s eight-race program because of a forecast for a significant storm expected to bring more than two inches of rain to Southern California that day.

The decision was made early Friday afternoon. The track will race on Saturday this weekend before resuming live racing on Feb. 9.

The two Grade 3, $100,000 stakes scheduled for Sunday – the Las Virgenes Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at a mile and the San Marcos Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on turf – have been rescheduled for Feb. 10.

Entries for those races will be taken on Wednesday, the track said in a statement announcing the cancellation.

This is the first day of cancelled racing at the current winter-spring meeting, which began on Dec. 26.

Last winter and spring, the track cancelled eight days of racing because of higher-than-normal rainfall. The track later made up four of those days.

California tracks are discouraged from racing in severe weather, following inclement weather policies enacted by the California Horse Racing Board in late 2020.

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