Santa Anita resurfacing

Santa Anita Park is re-doing its track surface yet again, this time a comparatively minor makeover that will result in the closing of the track to training for 10 days starting July 11. Santa Anita made the announcement in conjunction with the California Thoroughbred Trainers (CTT). The remediation of the track surface with natural sand [...]

Zenyatta award from Chenery 2/5

Zenyatta will be the recipient of the inaugural Secretariat Vox Populi Award (Voice of the People), which will be presented at Santa Anita Park on Feb. 5 by Secretariat owner Penny Chenery. Chenery, who is the subject of Disney’s movie “Secretariat,” which is being released on Blu-ray Jan. 25, announced today that she is creating [...]

Santa Anita track to be fixed again

After weathering one of the most intense periods of rains in Southern California history and opening as scheduled on Dec. 26, it looks like Santa Anita Park‘s new dirt track installed only last month already needs a bit of fine-tuning. Sand will be added to the track Tuesday in order to correct an apparent imbalance [...]

Santa Anita still on track

Despite the biggest rains in decades and more to come over the next couple days, Santa Anita Park president George Haines says the horse race facility expects to have great racing on opening day Sunday, as scheduled. Before the rains, officials were expecting crowds of more than 40,000 for the 2010-2011 meet. That’s still a [...]

Santa Anita re-opens Dec. 6

Despite recent rains, horses will resume training on Santa Anita Park’s new dirt track Dec. 5 after being idle since April, the longest time without live horse racing there since 1968. The next racing season at the venerable track begins with opening day on Dec. 26. Santa Anita’s main track was comprised of synthetic material [...]

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