SANTA ANITA LEADERS
(Through Thursday)
Jockeys / Wins
Juan Hernandez / 45
Flavien Prat / 38
Antonio Fresu / 35
Frankie Dettori / 26
Umberto Rispoli / 19
Trainers / Wins
Doug O’Neill / 25
Mark Glatt / 21
Bob Baffert / 20
Phil D’Amato / 19
Steve Knapp / 16
WEEKEND STAKES AT SANTA ANITA
Saturday
• $100,000 Grade III San Carlos Stakes, 4-year-olds and up, 7 furlongs
• $100,000 The Pasadena, 3-year-olds, 1 mile on turf
Sunday
• $100,000 Irish O’Brien Stakes, Cal-bred fillies and mares, 4 and up, about 6 1/2 furlongs on turf
DOWN THE STRETCH
• The Chosen Vron, just named 2023 California-bred Horse of the Year, starts from the sometimes tricky No. 1 post and faces streaking Elwood Blues and Ghost of Midnight in Saturday’s San Carlos Stakes. The 6-year-old gelding, winner of 13 of 17 races, started from the the rail in sprints twice previously, producing a minor stakes win and a defeat at odds-on.
• Nysos, the top-ranked North American 3-year-old, is out of training for a month, the Thoroughbred Daily News was first to report. Trainer Bob Baffert told TDN the colt had a minor setback. He was scratched from the March 3 San Felipe Stakes after running his record to 3 for 3 by winning the Feb. 3 Robert B. Lewis.
• Official future betting on the May 4 Kentucky Derby is open Friday through 3 p.m. Sunday. Sierra Leone (5-1), Timberlake (8-1), Dornoch (12-1) and Fierceness (12-1) top the morning line among 39 individual horses listed, and there’s an “all other 3-year-olds” option (15-1). California-based horses are longshots: Michael McCarthy-trained Endlessly (50-1), winner of the El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gate Fields, and Phil D’Amato’s Stronghold (80-1), first in the Sunland Derby in New Mexico.
• Fans at Santa Anita can cheer the memory of Jerry Antonucci on Sunday. The sixth will be named in honor of the popular Los Angeles Herald Examiner and Orange County Register handicapper who died Feb. 6 at age 77.
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