SANTA ANITA LEADERS
Through Thursday
JOCKEYS / WINS
Juan Hernandez / 22
Antonio Fresu / 19
Flavien Prat / 18
Frankie Dettori / 12
Umberto Rispoli / 11
TRAINERS / WINS
Mark Glatt / 14
Philip D’Amato / 12
Doug O’Neill / 10
Bob Baffert / 9
Steve Knapp / 9
WEEKEND STAKES (SANTA ANITA)
Saturday
• $200,000 Grade II Santa Monica Stakes, fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, 7 furlongs
• $200,000 Grade III Robert B. Lewis Stakes, 3-year-olds, 1 mile
• $100,000 Grade III Megahertz Stakes, fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, 1 mile (turf)
• $100,000 Grade III Thunder Road Stakes, 4-year-olds and up, 1 mile (turf)
Sunday
• $100,000 Grade III Las Virgenes Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 1 mile
• $100,000 Grade III San Marcos Stakes, 4-year-olds and up, 1¼ miles (turf)
DOWN THE STRETCH
• The top two colts in our Derby Super Six rankings – Fierceness and Nysos – are scheduled to make their 3-year-old debuts on Saturday. Nysos will be going two turns for the first time while facing eight rivals in the $200,000 Grade III Robert B. Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita at a mile. Flavien Prat will ride the 4-5 morning-line favorite, who has won his two starts by a combined 19¼ lengths. At Gulfstream Park, Fierceness is part of an eight-horse field in the $250,000 Grade III Holy Bull Stakes at 1-1/16 miles. He’s the 3-5 morning-line favorite.
• The connections for San Pasqual Stakes winner Newgrange have a decision to make – run in the $400,000 Big ’Cap at Santa Anita on March 2 over a track he loves or ship the 5-year-old son of Violence to Dubai for the $12 million World Cup on March 30. “I think we’d been talking about if he had run a race like this, you know maybe taking a big swing at something like Dubai,” trainer Philip D’Amato said after Newgrange’s gate-to-wire, one-length victory in last Saturday’s San Pasqual. “It’s going to be even tougher there, but the money is incredible.”
• Slow Down Andy, sidelined by filling in…
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