SANTA ANITA LEADERS
Through Thursday
JOCKEYS / WINS
Flavien Prat / 15
Juan Hernandez / 7
Kent Desormeaux / 5
Three tied / 4
TRAINERS / WINS
Doug O’Neill / 7
Peter Miller / 6
Bob Baffert / 5
John Sadler / 4
Five tied / 3
WEEKEND STAKES (SANTA ANITA)
Saturday
• $100,000 California Distaff Handicap, fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, 6½ furlongs (downhill turf)
Sunday
• $100,000 California Flag Handicap, 3-year-olds and up, 6½ furlongs (downhill turf)
DOWN THE STRETCH
• In a wonder move, 32-year-old trainer Andrew Lerner introduced on his Twitter web page Thursday that he is retiring. “As a few of I’ve decided to retire from training,” Lerner wrote. “We had an important run and I couldn’t be extra thankful for my complete group, house owners and horses. Huge thanks to @santaanitapark and @DelMarRacing for giving a contemporary face an opportunity to compete at their tracks!” Lerner, who began training in 2017 and reportedly plans to stay involved in the sport as an proprietor, has 88 wins from 502 runners with earnings of greater than $2.Five million.
• The stylish mare Warren’s Showtime will try Santa Anita’s downhill turf route for the primary time when she heads a box of six fillies and mares in Saturday’s $100,000 California Distaff Handicap. Warren’s Showtime, out of the Grade I winning-mare Warren’s Veneda, is a two-time graded-stakes successful daughter of most sensible sire Clubhouse Ride. She’s the top money earner within the race with $715,431 from an total document of 21-7-2-10 for trainer Craig Lewis. She’ll be ridden by means of Juan Hernandez.
• North County Guy headlines a field of nine for Sunday’s $100,000 California Flag Handicap over Santa Anita’s famed downhill turf course. A 6-year-old gelded son of The Pamplemousse trained through Richard Baltas, North County Guy has been running in turf routes the previous two years, but Baltas has been frightened to get him back to sprinting on the grass. He comes in off a 2¼-length victory in an allowance race at 1-1/Sixteen miles at Del Mar on Aug. 20.
— Art Wilson
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