Santa Anita Announces 2019-20 Winter/Spring Stakes Schedule

– Photo by Terry Miller / Beacon Media News

Headed by grade I Malibu & La Brea on Dec. 26, a total of 93 stakes, 11 of them grade I, to be offered through June 21

Santa Anita Park, which will open for its 83rd Winter/Spring Meeting on Thursday, Dec. 26, has announced a complete stakes schedule through closing day, June 21.  The schedule, which includes a total of 93 added money races, will be keynoted by a pair of Grade I stakes on opening day—the $300,000 Malibu, for 3-year-olds at seven furlongs and the $300,000 La Brea, for 3-year-old fillies at the same distance.

The Malibu and La Brea will again be complemented on Dec. 26 by the Grade II, $200,000 San Antonio Stakes, the Grade II, $200,000 Mathis Brothers Mile and the $75,000 Lady of Shamrock Stakes.

The prestigious Grade I, $300,000 American Oaks, for 3-year-old fillies at a mile and one quarter on turf, will serve as Santa Anita’s final Grade I offering this year on Saturday, Dec. 28.

The Grade I, $1 million Santa Anita Derby, which has produced a total of 18 Kentucky Derby winners and three Triple Crown Champions—Majestic Prince in 1969, Affirmed in 1978 and Justify in 2018, will be run on Saturday, April 4.

First run in February, 1935, the Grade I, $600,000 Santa Anita Handicap, which was won this year by Hronis Racing’s Gift Box, will be contested for the 83rd time on Saturday, March 7.

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