Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: Fondness for pair of 4-year-old fillies

April 14, 2013

After a blogging break due to unforeseen circumstances yesterday, the week closes in featured races up and down the cost with two of our favorite fillies stepping up to the biggest races of their careers. At Santa Anita, Maker Or Breaker makes her stakes debut as the 8-to-5 favorite in the $70,000 Santa Lucia Stakes [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: My Philly Girl’s style lands favorite’s role

April 12, 2013

Five females knocking on the door to break into stakes company and one that exits her debut in a stakes sprint 6 ½-furlongs on the main track in Friday’s featured second-level allowance with a purse of $60,000. The most lightly raced with just four starts under her belt, My Philly Girl is the 9-to-5 morning [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: Big names in star-studded maiden sprint

April 11, 2013

The penultimate week of racing at the meet begins with an intriguing maiden special weight heat for fillies sprinting six furlongs on the main track. As is often the case in these types of races, Bob Baffert plays an integral role with 5-to-2 second choice Tiz Midnight and 12-to-1 long shot Here’s to Rose making [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita Park with Marc Doche: Post-Derby card not an American Beauty

April 7, 2013

Great racing, great weather and a huge crowd was the recipe for a fantastic day at the track yesterday, but the Santa Anita Derby hang over hits hard with a card that was difficult for the racing office to fill and the featured $75,000 American Beauty Stakes at a mile on turf drew just five [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: One man can steal Santa Anita Derby Day show

April 6, 2013

Racing the way it was meant to be on one of the biggest days on the Southern California calendar with a loaded 11-race card that includes five stakes races and is headlined by the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby (Grade 1) for three-year-olds at 1 1/8-miles on the main track. The defection of San Felipe Stakes [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: Takes a back seat to openings/closings elsewhere

April 5, 2013

Ahead of the most exciting day of the meet, the action at Santa Anita takes a back seat to opening day at Keeneland and closing day at Gulfstream Park, where there is a mandatory payout in the ten cent Rainbow Pick-6 that begins with a pool just shy of $2 million. On the local front, [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: Hill features part of another Pick-6 carryover

April 4, 2013

A pair of allowance spins down the hill with $58,000 purses gets Santa Anita Derby week started. First-level allowance California-bred females kick off a Pick-6 sequence that begins with a carryover of $88,542 in the third race and three-year-olds roll in the feature race seventh slot in an $80,000 allowance optional claimer. The only of [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: Santana salty spot for Liaison’s return

March 31, 2013

Winner of the Cash Call Futurity (Grade 1) to close 2011, Liaison makes his first start of 2013 as the 3-to-1 fourth choice in a short field of five that go a mile on the main track in the $70,000 Santana Mile. After eight defeats against top class three-year-olds in graded stakes action across the [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: Cal-breds get their share on major day

March 30, 2013

After horses competed for eight figures in purse money in Dubai earlier today and with $1 million up for grabs on the Road to the Kentucky Derby in both the Louisiana  Derby (G1) and Florida Derby (G1), three-year-old California-breds shoot for $200,000 purses at Santa Anita in the Evening Jewel Stakes for fillies and Echo [...]

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Racing at Santa Anita with Marc Doche: Pasadena kicks off big weekend for three-year-olds

March 29, 2013

Ahead of major stakes action across the world tomorrow in the second leg of the Championship Series on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, we’re treated with weekday stakes action for three-year-olds at a mile on turf in the $70,000 Pasadena Stakes. The one to catch and beat is 5-to-2 morning line favorite Rosengold, who [...]

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