SANTA ANITA LEADERS
(Through Thursday)
Jockeys / Wins
Flavien Prat / 32
Juan Hernandez / 32
Antonio Fresu / 26
Frankie Dettori / 19
Hector Berrios / 13
Umberto Rispoli / 13
Trainers / Wins
Mark Glatt / 18
Doug O’Neill / 16
Phil D’Amato / 16
Steve Knapp / 14
Bob Baffert / 13
WEEKEND STAKES AT SANTA ANITA
Saturday
• $100,000 Santa Ana Stakes (Grade III), fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, 1 1/4 miles on turfSunday
• $100,000 Wishing Well Stakes, fillies and mares, 4 and up, about 6 1/2 furlongs on turf
LOS ALAMITOS
Saturday
• $35,000 Denim N Diamonds Handicap, quarter-horse mares, 4-year-olds and up, 350 yards
Sunday
• $125,000 Los Alamitos Maiden Stakes, quarter horses, 3-year-olds, 350 yards
DOWN THE STRETCH
• Sierra Leone was bet down to 6-1 favorite in the fourth Kentucky Derby futures pool after the Chad Brown-trained colt and rider Tyler Gaffalione rallied to a half-length win over a deep field in last Saturday’s Risen Star Stakes in Louisiana. Sierra Leone and Risen Star runner-up Track Phantom rose to second and third in the NTRA 3-year-olds rankings. Nysos is No. 1 and Muth No. 4, but both are ineligible for the May 4 Kentucky Derby because of Churchill Downs’ sanctions against trainer Bob Baffert.
• The next Derby steppingstone, the Rebel Stakes in Arkansas on Saturday, looks like a soft touch for Timberlake and jockey Cristian Torres as trainer Brad Cox sends the Champagne Stakes winner out for his first start since a fourth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.
• The Santa Ana highlights local weekend stakes action. Khinjani and jockey Frankie Dettori can run down Linda’s Gift and Tiago Pereira if the British-bred filly moves forward off a win in her U.S. debut for Santa Anita-leading trainer Mark Glatt.
• Echo Zulu, champion 2-year-old filly of 2021, was euthanized after injuring a leg in a stall accident while recovering from the foreleg fracture that kept her out of last fall’s Breeders’ Cup Filly &…
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