Santa Anita crowds, bets grow

Santa Anita Park continues to enjoy a rebound racing season, with overall handle currently up seven percent and field size remaining strong at 8.3 horses per race, compared to 7.7 a year ago. The track will continue to run a four-day-a-week schedule through closing day, April 22. “We’re very pleased with how the meeting is going,” [...]

Santa Anita crowds up 21%

Horse racing at Santa Anita Park got out of the gate extremely fast this season. The biggest opening day crowd since 1994 (44,579 on Dec. 26) proved to be no one-trick pony, with on-track attendance through the first six days of racing up 21% and on-track handle up 11%. Out-of-state handle also surged 18% from a [...]

Best Santa Anita crowd since 1994

With Santa Anita Park‘s traditional day-after-Christmas opening day falling on a Monday that was a holiday for most people and picture-perfect weather, the race track enjoyed its biggest season opener in nearly 17 years. The 44,579 in attendance was the first opening day crowd over 40,000 since 2002, and the biggest since the 46,904 crowd [...]

Win Santa Anita football jersey

Santa Anita Park will feature two football-related promotions for horse racing fans during the fall football season. A unique football jersey from Santa Anita Park race track will be offered as prizes for football promotions the first three weekends  of the Santa Anita Autumn Meet beginning Friday, Sept. 30 and running through Nov. 6. By [...]

Arcadia Day at Santa Anita

Opening day of the first new Santa Anita Park Autumn Meet has been proclaimed Arcadia Day at the Great Race Place. All Arcadians attending on Friday, Sept. 30, will be granted free Club House admission throughout the afternoon with proof of residency. An “Arcadia Day” booth will be available to welcome and facilitate Arcadia residents [...]

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