ARCADIA, Calif .- There is a two-day pick six carryover of $231,345 for Sunday’s nine-race program at Santa Anita, the first major carryover of the winter-spring meeting.
The pick six carryover was clinched after Chasing the Heat ($59) won Saturday’s ninth race for $12,500 claimers. There is also a carryover of $26,860 in the $1 super high five for Sunday’s ninth race.
Sunday’s pick six covers the fourth through ninth races on a nine-race program that begins at 12:30 p.m. Pacific.
ARCADIA, Calif .- Fed Biz can win a stretch duel as well as any horse in California these days. The trouble is he is not always in contention at that stage of a race.
Last August, Fed Biz won the El Cajon Stakes at Del Mar over Jimmy Creed by a neck after fighting through the final furlong. Jimmy Creed later won the Group 1 Malibu Stakes here on Dec. 26.
Saturday, Fed Biz outfinished Tritap by just a head to win the $150,000 San Fernando Stakes for 4-year-olds over 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita.
Tyger Teras prevented Back Seat Roll from winning her fifth straight race Saturday, when she held that rival off by 1 1/4 lengths in the $85,000 La Senora at Sunland Park. Back Seat Roll finished a clear second, 2 1/4 lengths in front of third-place finisher Lakehouse Fun.
The La Senora was run over six furlongs and was restricted to 3-year-old fillies bred in New Mexico.
PHOENIX, – Tiz Gianni found Grade 2 waters far too deep when seventh in the Hollywood Turf Cup on Dec. 15 but a change of venue and change of class altitude did the trick as he captured Saturday’s $75,000 Cotton Fitzsimmons Mile Handicap at Turf Paradise.
Two of the sharpest $7,500 claims in the land reside in the same barn. On Friday at Fair Grounds, trainer Tim Glyshaw sent out Tiban to win a second-level allowance sprint, his sixth victory since being claimed in May. Saturday, My My My Maria took her turn, comfortably capturing the $75,000 Pan Zareta Stakes with a decisive move off the turn and into the homestretch.
ALBANY, Calif. – The finish of the $100,000 California Derby was much better for odds-on favorite Zeewat than the start.
Zeewat ($3.80) hopped as the gate opened, breaking awkwardly and getting shuffled back early in the 1 1/16-mile race that is the major local prep for the Grade 3, $200,000 El Camino Real Derby on Feb. 16.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Mucho Mas Macho, the second longest price on the board at 40-1, rallied from the rear of the pack to register a shocking neck victory over the 19-1 Tiz Sardonia Joe in a roughly run edition of the Grade 2 Ft. Lauderdale Stakes at Gulfstream Park. The race became a little more wide open earlier in the day when Dominus, the 12- pound highweight and likely favorite, was scratched.
OLDSMAR, Fla. - Dynamic Sky overcame some traffic problems in the stretch of the $100,000 Pasco Stakes for 3-year-olds to rally past his entrymate Sky Commander and stamp himself as one of the early favorites for local Kentucky Derby prep races with a most impressive victory.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - After watching the races earlier on Saturday’s card at Aqueduct, trainer James Lawrence and owner George Autry decided to change tactics with their 3-year-old filly Lady Banks for the $75,000 Ruthless Stakes.
Rather than have jockey Eddie Castro take back and make one run, Lawrence instructed Castro to keep Lady Banks close to the pace.
Multiple stakes winner Bold Affair was more than a little reluctant to go into the starting gate for Saturday’s $105,000 What a Summer Stakes at Laurel Park. Thereafter, however, it was smooth sailing.
Bold Affair, racing three wide under jockey Abel Castellano Jr., overtook pacesetter Defy Gravity and second choice Dance to Bristol with about three furlongs remaining and rolled to an easy 4 1/2-length victory in the six-furlong race for fillies and mares.
Castellano said that acting up at the gate is something he has encoutered before with Bold Affair.
