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Fans will be greeted with a full complement of world-class racing, a variety of promotions and a comprehensive wagering menu when Santa Anita's 18-day Autumn Meet opens on Friday, Sept. 30.

A total of 10 stakes will be offered opening weekend, Oct. 1 & 2, with the Grade 1, $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes on Oct. 1 providing the winner with a fees-paid berth in the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland on Nov. 5.

A pair of wagers that combine races at Santa Anita and Golden Gate Fields will again be offered—the $1 Golden Hour Pick 4, and the $5 Golden Hour Double, which both feature a low 15 percent takeout. These wagers will be offered throughout the meet, excepting when live racing shifts from Golden Gate to the Big Fresno Fair, which runs from Oct. 5-16.

In addition to wagering on-track, fans have a variety of betting options, including 1stbet.com, which can be downloaded free of charge at the App Store. In addition to Santa Anita's simulcast signal, all of the track's races will be shown live on FanDuel TV.

Santa Anita's Rainbow Six Jackpot wager, which consists of the final six races on each day's program, is again available as is the low 14 percent takeout 50 cent Early Pick 5 and the 50 cent Late Pick 5.

Providing there is no single ticket winner, the 20 cent Single Ticket Rainbow Pick Six is paid on a daily basis to those consolation tickets with the highest number of winning tickets. Thirty percent of the net Rainbow pool is then carried over to a jackpot pool on the next racing day.

There are two mandatory payout days scheduled for the Rainbow Six, the first on Saturday, Oct. 15 and the second on closing day, Sunday, Nov. 6.

Santa Anita will continue to offer a low 14 percent takeout 50 cent Early Pick 5, as well as the 50 cent Late Pick 5, $1 exactas, $2 rolling Daily Doubles, 50 cent rolling Pick 3's, an early 50 cent Pick 4, as well as 10 cent Superfectas on all races with a minimum of six runners.

2022 AUTUMN MEET COMPLETE WAGERING MENU

–20 cent Rainbow Pick Six offered on the final six races each day

–Low 14 percent takeout 50 cent Early Pick 5, as well as the traditional 50 cent Late 5

–$1 Golden Hour Pick Four, with 15 percent takeout

–$5 Golden Hour Double, with 15 percent takeout

–$2 Win, Place & Show wagering on each, featuring the lowest takeout (15.43 percent) of any major racetrack in North America

–50 cent Trifectas on each race with a minimum of four scheduled runners

–10 cent Superfectas on all races with a minimum of six scheduled starters

–$1 Exactas on each race

–50 cent Early Pick 4, which will be comprised of races two through five

–50 cent Late Pick 4, comprised of the final four races each day

–50 cent Mid Pick 4, available only when there are 11 or more races carded. In the event of an 11-race program, wager begins with Race 5

–Rolling $2 Daily Doubles

–50 cent Rolling Pick 3's, beginning with the first race each day

–$1 Super Hi 5, available on all races with seven or more declared starters and requires players to pick the first five finishers in exact order. If there are no perfect tickets with five winners, no consolation, 100 percent of the net pool is carried over to the next Super Hi 5 race

For additional information regarding Santa Anita's 2022 Autumn Meet, please visit santaanita.com or call (626) 574-RACE.

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The Godolphin global juggernaut, which captured four million-dollar races in three countries last weekend, targets the same purse this Friday night at Sydney's Rosehill Racecourse. The Group 1 Golden Rose has attracted a field of 17 newly-turned 3-year-olds, including a trio carrying the ubiquitous “Godolphin blue.” The seven-furlong Golden Rose is one of five stakes on a Rosehill card which gets underway at 9:55 p.m. Eastern.

Barely after the dust settled from the heroics of Modern Games and Mysterious Night in Toronto, Nations Pride in New York and Anamoe in Sydney, Godolphin will furnish the top two horses in Golden Rose wagering. In Secret (2-1) has three wins and an unlucky second from four career starts. The filly comes off a victory in the Run to the Rose (watch replay), a prime example of a “key prep” with eight of the last ten Golden Rose winners having contested that race.

In Secret's popularity was cemented by the engagement of champion jockey James McDonald, who rode five winners last Friday night and is hitting at a 30% clip since the new season began on Aug. 1. Golden Mile (5-1) has two wins and an excellent second (against a bias) in his three career starts. The colt was sired by Godolphin's 2016 Golden Rose winner, Astern. The “blue army” also entered Daumier (40-1), a longshot winner at G1 level last season who did little in his seasonal debut.

Beyond Godolphin, the race features last season's champion 2-year-old. Fireburn is the most experienced horse in the field with eight races under her belt and, as a dual G1 winner (including the Golden Slipper, the world's richest juvenile race), is also the best credentialled. She's Extreme developed into Fireburn's biggest rival last season, ultimately defeating the champion in their final clash. Both fillies are quoted at 10-1 for Friday night's Golden Rose, and each did enough in their 3-year-old debuts to warrant consideration second-up.

However, there is a sobering historical counterweight to the positive profiles of In Secret, Fireburn, and She's Extreme: fillies have an abysmal record in the Golden Rose, winning only one of the 19 runnings. Combining this with the aforementioned Run to the Rose stat, I recommend considering the colts who exited that key prep race: Best of Bordeaux (12-1), Sejardan (25-1), Political Debate (60-1) and Promitto (35-1). Of these, Best of Bordeaux is cross-entered (see below) and my preference is Sejardan. A winner of three from six starts, this colt had support when luckless in the Golden Slipper last March, gives every indication of enjoying his first race beyond six furlongs, and is 2-for-2 second run off a layoff.

The Golden Rose (Race 8 of 10) bears watching as a future form reference. Last year, the favorite and runner-up was none other than Anamoe, whose most recent of four subsequent G1 wins came last weekend for Godolphin. Fourth home in 2021 was Artorius, who finished third in this year's G1 Platinum Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot. Yes Yes Yes parlayed a second-place finish in 2019 with victory in The Everest, the world's richest turf race which will be run in Sydney on Oct. 14. The Everest is conducted under a slot-holder format and, with six slots still open, the Golden Rose will be keenly observed and evaluated.

Friday night's supporting stakes are:

G3 Colin Stephen Quality (Race 4), a traditional prep for the G1 Metropolitan Handicap on September 30. Both races are at 1-1/2 miles.

Heritage Stakes (Race 6), for 3-year-olds at 5-1/2 furlongs. Best of Bordeaux, a 12-1 shot for the Golden Rose, is more likely to contest the Heritage, where he is 9-5 favorite with James McDonald listed to ride.

G2 Golden Pendant (Race 7), for fillies and mares at seven furlongs.

G2 Shannon Stakes (Race 9), for 3-year-olds and up at 7-1/2 furlongs; won last year by a Chris Waller-trained 40-1 shot.

The Rosehill card (AUS-A) will be broadcast live on FanDuel TV this Friday night (First Post: 9:55 p.m. ET / 6:55 p.m. PT) alongside cards from Newcastle (AUS-B), Gold Coast (AUS-C) and Belmont (AUS-D). All races will be live-streamed in HD on the new Sky Racing World App, skyracingworld.com and major ADW platforms such as TVG, TwinSpires, Xpressbet, NYRABets, WatchandWager, HPIbet, and AmWager. Wagering is also available via these ADW platforms. Fans can get free access to live-streaming, past performances and expert picks on all races at skyracingworld.com.

About Michael Wrona

A native of Brisbane, Australia, Michael Wrona has called races in six countries. Michael's vast U.S. experience includes; race calling at Los Alamitos, Hollywood Park, Arlington and Santa Anita, calling the 2000 Preakness on a national radio network and the 2016 Breeders' Cup on the International simulcast network. Michael also performed a race call voiceover for a Seinfeld episode called The Subway.

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The live racing card scheduled for Wednesday at Delaware Park has been cancelled due to a power outage in the stable area.

Live racing is scheduled to resume tomorrow, Thursday, Sept. 22, with a first race post time of 12:30 p.m.

Live racing is conducted on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday through November 5^th.

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Saturday's Grade 1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby drew a strong field of 10 including six who participated in the Kentucky Derby this spring. Among that group, Cyberknife must be mentioned first as he rebounded off an 18th place Derby effort to win both the Grade 3 Matt Winn Stakes and Grade 1 Haskell Stakes before a runner-up effort to division leader Epicenter in the Grade 1 Travers Stakes last month.

Tawny Port also hails from the barn of trainer Brad Cox, who is currently fourth among all trainers in North America with $17 million in earnings so far in 2022. Tawny Port won the Grade 3 Ohio Derby in June before a third place finish behind Epicenter and Zandon in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes at the end of July. Zandon has earned $1.2 million to date (compared to $1.8 million for Cyberknife), winning the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes in April before a third place finish in the Kentucky Derby, followed by a runner-up effort in the Jim Dandy and a third place finish in the Travers.

Taiba won the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby in April before a 12th place finish in the Kentucky Derby and was most recently a head shy of Cyberknife in the Haskell. Simplification, who was fourth in the Derby, was sixth in the Grade 1 Preakness Stakes in his next start and most recently third in the Grade 3 West Virginia Derby, which was won by Skippylongstocking for his first career stakes victory. White Abarrio won the Grade 1 Florida Derby in April and his best effort since was when second behind Tawny Port in the Ohio Derby but most recently was seventh of eight and far back in the Haskell.

We the People won the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes at the distance of the Pennsylvania Derby in May and was most recently second in the West Virginia Derby. B Dawk, Icy Storm and Naval Aviator round out the field, with only B Dawk having ever run in a stakes, placing second in the Sir Barton Stakes in May.

Main win contenders:

Although Cyberknife and Tawny Port have both called the Brad Cox barn home throughout their entire careers, consisting of 18 races combined, they have never faced one another until now. Tawny Port may actually be the faster of the pair at this point in time and certainly will offer better betting value, having just a pair of grade 3 stakes wins to his credit in the Lexington Stakes in April and in the Ohio Derby in June. However, his pattern of improving Equibase® Speed Figures is unmistakable, having earned a 100 figure when seventh in the Kentucky Derby before improving to 107 in the Ohio Derby, then improving again to 108 although third in the Jim Dandy Stakes. In the Jim Dandy, Tawny Port tracked the pacesetters in third in the early stages then moved to within three-quarters of a length with an eighth of a mile to go. Although no match for Epicenter, who won the Travers Stakes one month later, Tawny Port showed a lot of physical and mental ability to the wire, finishing just a half-length from runner-up Zandon at the end. With North American leading jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. riding Tawny Port as he did in both the Ohio Derby and in the Jim Dandy, and with the best last race Equibase Speed Figure in the field and with more improvement possible, Tawny Port can post the mild upset and win this year's Pennsylvania Derby.

Cyberknife ran two big races in a row in February and April, the second of which was a strong victory by nearly three lengths in the Arkansas Derby. Then following his poor 18th place effort in the Kentucky Derby, Cyberknife resumed his winning ways by winning both the Matt Winn Stakes and Haskell Stakes, both with career-best 104 figures. In the Travers Stakes last month and facing Epicenter for the first time since the Kentucky Derby (in which Epicenter finished second), Cyberknife was no match for the leader in the three year old division as the winner drew off by five and one-quarter lengths. Just the same, Cyberknife was exceptionally game in holding off Zandon by a nose at the wire, earning a 103 figure nearly the same as in his two previous starts. Given Cyberknife has the ability to lead early if need be, or to relax off the pace which is likely with We the People logically the early leader, Cyberknife can be counted on once again for an “A” effort good enough to win this race.

Taiba is the most lightly raced horse in the field, having run just four times. Having run just twice going into the Kentucky Derby may have been his undoing as he faded from fifth in the early stages to 12th at the end. Returning as a much more mature horse in the Haskell Stakes in July, Taiba not only earned a career best 104 figure on par with winner Cyberknife and the second best last race figure in the field, he showed a lot of mental toughness by battling head and head with the winner for the entire last eighth of a mile. Having put in a series of very strong workouts at trainer Bob Baffert's home base in California since that race, and possibly more physically and mentally mature as when last seen two months ago, Taiba rounds out the trio of contenders which appears to have an edge over the other entrants in this year's Pennsylvania Derby.

The rest of the field, with their best Equibase Speed Figures, is B Dawk (105), Icy Storm (83), Naval Aviator (100), Simplification (101), Skippylongstocking (102), We the People (101), White Abarrio (106) and Zandon (109).

Win contenders:
Tawny Port
Cyberknife
Taiba

Pennsylvania Derby – Grade 1
Race 12 at Parx Racing
Saturday September 24 – Post Time 6:10 PM E.T.
One Mile and One Eighth
Three Year Olds
Purse: $1 Million

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