ARCADIA, Calif. - Bettors failed to hit the pick six at Santa Anita on Sunday's opening day program, leaving a carryover of $177,783 for Monday.
The pick six on Monday covers the fourth through ninth races. Weather could play a factor in the program. There is a significant chance that rain early afternoon.
Two of the pick six races - the fourth and sixth - are scheduled for turf, and could come off with inclement weather.
ALBANY, Calif. - Scrofa ($11.20), who won her previous start despite a six-wide trip, turned a ground-saving trip into a stakes victory in the $100,000 at Golden Gate Fields on Sunday.
With pacesetter Marty's Zee racing very wide off the rail, jockey Omar Figueroa Jr. kept Scrofa to the inside while maintaining a good stalking position.
"[Trainer Paul Aguirre] told me to ride the same as when I won with her [at Fairplex], just save some ground," Figueroa said. "It was very nice. I waited for the speed, then came through on the inside."
ARCADIA, Calif. - Jeff Mullins was the leading trainer last year at Santa Anita, stopping the seven-year streak of Bob Baffert. He won the Santa Anita Derby with Castledale, his second straight victory in that race.
Mullins won 45 races in 166 starts for a strike rate of 27 percent. This fall, however, his percentage sagged, and Mullins is not certain he will be as effective the first part of Santa Anita's meet, even with Castledale nearing a comeback.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Three Valleys, who was an outstanding third-place finisher in last month's Grade 1 Citation Handicap in his North American debut, looms as the shortest-priced favorite of the day when he returns to a race exclusively for 3-year-olds in Sunday's $100,000 Sir Beaufort Stakes at Santa Anita.
The Sir Beaufort, the day's seventh race, is one of two supporting stakes on a card topped by the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes. The fourth race, which begins the pick six, is the $125,000 California Breeders' Champion Stakes for 2-year-olds.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Yearly Report has proven herself around two turns, but she is virtually unbeatable around one turn. In four sprints, she has won three times, her lone loss coming when second to Silent Sighs, part of the stellar cast of California-bred 3-year-old fillies of 2004.
ARCADIA, Calif. - House of Fortune would have been one of the leading contenders in Monday's Grade 1 La Brea Stakes, but trainer Ron McAnally opted to keep her out of the race and instead await the 6 1/2-furlong Kalookan Queen Handicap on Jan. 5. She has not raced since finishing last of seven in the Spinster Stakes at Keeneland on Oct. 10.
ALBANY, Calif. - Class Edition has been a profitable investment for trainer Ed Moger Jr.'s main clients, Curt and Lila Lanning.
Purchased for $17,500 as a yearling, Class Edition has hit the board in 10 of 11 starts for earnings of $50,190. She will receive a new challenge Monday at Golden Gate Fields when she tries two turns for the first time in a one-mile allowance race for fillies and mares.
A 3-year-old filly by the Danzig sire Game Plan, Class Edition was bred by Becky Birklid.
"The breeder has been telling me forever, 'Why don't you route her?'" said Moger.
PORTLAND, Ore. - Outofthisworld looks to repeat when he heads a field of 10 sprinters in Monday's six-furlong feature, for open $2,500 company.
Outofthisworld, a 5-year-old son of Flying Continental from the barn of trainer Delmer Webb, is coming off a sharp score under the same conditions on Dec. 13. In that race, Outofthisworld came from off the pace under Tim Neal to score by 1 1/4 lengths over Jac Four Girls, with On El Bon a neck back in third. His clocking was a good 1:12.60 for the six furlongs.
MIAMI - Trainer Bill Cesare has handled Second of June with kid gloves since putting him back in training late last spring. He will finally take those gloves off Monday, when Second of June launches his much-anticipated comeback going 1 1/16 miles against six rivals under optional claiming conditions.
