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Opening Day: Santa Anita Features 6 Stakes Race On Saturday


By Margaret Ransom
Courtesy of Santa Anita press release
A talent-filled opening day program on Saturday at Santa Anita Park will help usher out a year of horse racing that has been unpredictable, turbulent and downright implausible, and hopefully foreshadow a 2021 that will mark a return to some semblance of normalcy.
Once again, the $300,000 Runhappy Malibu Stakes (G1) is the centerpiece of an 11-race card that features an additional five stakes races and has drawn a standout field of six sophomores looking for a win in the final Grade 1 of the year in North America.
A year ago, the first day of Santa Anita’s 2019 winter/spring season was postponed due to inclement weather before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, but things will get underway at day after Christmas under mostly sunny skies and an afternoon high near 70 degrees. First post on opening day is 11 a.m. PT. ....

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Charlatan 'Healthy' For Highly-Anticipated Matchup With Nashville In Saturday's Malibu - Horse Racing News


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Charlatan, one in a battalion of bluebloods based in Bob Baffert s barn, faces off against Nashville in the Grade 1 Runhappy Malibu Stakes on opening day, Saturday, Dec. 26, the marquee event as historic Santa Anita ushers in its 84th season of world-class racing.
This year s Malibu is arguably one of the most anticipated in the event s 70 runnings, pitting two immensely talented sons of 2004 Eclipse Award champion male sprinter Speightstown against one another.
The Malibu has been won in the past by a Who s Who of Thoroughbreds, among them Runhappy (2015), Ferdinand (1986), Precisionist (1984), Spectacular Bid (1980), Ancient Title (1974), Damascus (1968), Buckpasser (1966) Native Diver (1962), Olden Times (1961), Hillsdale (1958), Round Table (1957) Determine (1955) and Calumet Farm s star filly A Gleam (1953). ....

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