5-Day race week at Santa Anita starting Thursday
At 0h02, on January 15, 2025 • By Santa Anita Park
Santa Anita Park, which canceled racing this weekend due to the Los Angeles County fires, will host five straight days of live racing starting on Thursday and ending with a special Martin Luther King Jr. holiday program on Monday. Highlighting the week ahead is California Cup Day on Saturday, which features many of the best horses bred or sired in California.
California Cup Day will have five stakes for statebreds worth $775,000 in total prize money. They are the $175,000 California Chrome California Cup Derby, $175,000 Leigh Ann Howard California Cup Oaks, $175,000 Unusual Heat Turf Classic, $125,000 Don Valpredo California Cup Sprint and $125,000 Sunshine Millions Filly & Mare Turf Sprint on the hillside turf course.
All the racing action at Santa Anita starts on Thursday with a 10-race card beginning at 3 p.m. That program was originally scheduled to be held this past Friday. Then the following day on Friday, Santa Anita will host an eight-race program with first post at 3:30 p.m.
First post on California Cup Day is 2:30 p.m. for an 11-race card. The California Chrome California Cup Derby features a rematch of Shea Brennan and I’m a Bad Boy, who were separated by just a nose when running one-two in last month’s King Glorious Stakes.
