HBO TV series at Santa Anita

Santa Anita Park will soon be home to the production of a new drama series for HBO from the creator/writer/producer of series such as “Hill Street Blues,” “NYPD Blue” and “Deadwood” and the director of “Miami Vice,” “Heat” and “Public Enemies.”

Filmmaker Michael Mann is scheduled to start directing the one-hour pilot for “Luck” in April, which is a new series exploring the horse racing and gambling culture from David Milch.

TV series creator Milch, who will be a speaker at the Mayor’s Community Breakfast on April 8, is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale and a thoroughbred horse owner whose horses have won the 1992 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and 2001 Breeders’ Cup Mile races. He will executive produce the series with Mann, who shot scenes from last year’s “Public Enemies” at the track with Johnny Depp.

– By Scott Hettrick