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Special Holiday Card On Tap At Santa Anita On Monday, Jan. 18

Live racing resumes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif., with a four-day race week on Friday, as there will be special holiday racing on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 18. Monday's main event will be the Grade 3, $100,000 Megahertz Stakes for older fillies and mares at one mile on turf.

Saturday, Jan. 16, is California Cup Day at Santa Anita, with the entire card, including five stakes, dedicated to horses bred or sired in California.

On Sunday, older fillies and mares will go a marathon mile and one half on turf in the Grade 3, $100,000 Astra Stakes.

For additional information, please visit santaanita.com.

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99-1 Shot Triggers $31,184 Trifecta Payoff On $.50 Bet At Santa Anita

Just a Command, a 99-1 longshot making his second career start, keyed an all-time record 50 cent Trifecta payoff of $31,184.10 in Saturday's sixth race at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.

Ridden by Tiago Pereira and trained by Eric Kruljac, Just a Command finished a neck in front of 17-1 longshot Funkenstein, who was a half length better than Ben's a Goalie, who was off at 7-2.

Ninth, beaten 20 ¼ lengths in his 5 ½ furlong debut at Los Alamitos Dec. 17, Just a Command was nearly shipped out of state in search of softer competition.

“I was ready to send this horse to Turf Paradise,” said native Arizonan Kruljac. “It just goes to show, you never really know.”

The winning Trifecta numbers were 8-11-12, and the payoff technically eclipsed Santa Anita's previous Trifecta record of $52,892.50, established on a one dollar ticket on Sept. 26, 2001.

Owned and bred in California by Four Quarters Corp, Just a Command paid $201.00 to win on a two dollar ticket. A 3-year-old California-bred colt by Forest Command that was entered for a maiden claiming tag of $50,000, picked up $21,000 for the win.

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Gulfstream Park: Mandatory Payout Spurs $5.3 Million Into Rainbow 6 Pool

Multiple winning tickets on Gulfstream Park's mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 Saturday were each worth $14,626.86.

There was $5,353.843 of new money bet into the pool at the Hallandale Beach, Fla., track.

The Rainbow 6 begins anew Sunday with a $100,000 guaranteed pool beginning with the sixth race, an allowance optional claiming event at 1 1/16 miles on the turf featuring a field of six. The first race in the sequence is followed by a maiden special weight event at five furlongs on the turf for 3-year-old fillies. There were four turf races in Sunday's Rainbow 6.

There will also be a Super Hi-5 carryover Sunday of $8,740.12.

The Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot is usually only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day's pool usually goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool. However, on mandatory-payout days, the entire pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the six-race sequence.

WHO'S HOT: Jockey Tyler Gaffalione had three winners on the afternoon, capping the day with his victory aboard Ride a Comet in the Tropical Park (G3). Gaffalione also won the third race with Shadwell Stable's first-time starter, Lamutanaatty, a 3-year-old son of Into Mischief, and the allowance optional claimer fourth race with Bluegrass Parkway…Trainer Bill Mott had a pair of 3-year-olds break their maidens Saturday. Frank Fletcher Racing Operations, Inc.'s Candy Man Rocket, a son of Candy Ride making his second start, ran away from eight others to win over six furlongs by 9 ¼ lengths in 1:11.28. Donald Dizney's homebred Simovitch won going a mile by 3 ½ lengths while covering the distance in 1:39.04.

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Weekend Lineup: Gulfstream’s Tropical Turf Part Of Rainbow 6 Mandatory Payout Sequence

There are only three American graded stakes races this weekend, the Tropical Turf Stakes at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., and the La Canada and Las Cienegas Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. All are Grade 3 events run on Saturday.

Here is a brief look at all three races. All times are Eastern.

Saturday, Jan. 9

4:49 p.m. – $100,000 Tropical Turf Stakes at Gulfstream Park

The Tropical Turf, for 4-year-olds and upward going one mile on turf, features the return of Analyze It, coming off a career worst performance in the G1 Shadwell Turf Mile at Keeneland on Oct. 3. Off for nearly two years from November 2018 until September 2020, the 6-year-old Point of Entry horse trained by Chad Brown finished eighth as the favorite under Tyler Gaffalione. Irad Ortiz Jr. has the mount on Saturday. Prior to that effort, he won his comeback race, the G3 Red Bank Stakes at Monmouth Park. Three years ago, Analyze It was only beaten three-quarters of a length by Expert Eye when third in the G1 Breeders' Cup Turf Mile. Ride a Comet came back for his own two-year layoff for trainer Mark Casse to win consecutive races at Woodbine on synthetic, including the G2 Kennedy Road. He won the G2 Del Mar Derby in 2018 before going on a lengthy hiatus.

The Tropical Turf will be the fifth race in the Rainbow 6, which will have a mandatory payout on Saturday and is expected to have a wagering pool in the millions of dollars.

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6:35 p.m. – $200,000 La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita

Fighting Mad has quietly compiled a record of five wins, one second and one third from nine starts for trainer Bob Baffert. The 5-year-old mare by New Year's Day threw in the towel last out when overtaken by both Harvest Moon and Hard Not to Love in the G2 Zenyatta Stakes, but she figures to be out winging on the front end again on Saturday.

Trainer John Shirreffs is going with the up-and-coming jockey Ricky Gonzalez on Hard Not to Love, the quirky Hard Spun mare who has been ridden by Mike Smith in her last seven starts. She's won five of 10 lifetime but has lost four straight after winning the G2 Santa Monica over seven furlongs last February. Chilean-bred Sanenus, a G1 winner in her native country, returns to California after making two starts at Churchill Downs last fall and could spring a surprise.

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7:05 p.m. – $100,000 Las Cienegas Stakes at Santa Anita

Intriguing lineup with Brazilian-bred Jolie Olimpica back to defend her title for Richard Mandella, who also has up and comer Superstition in the line-up for this filly and mare turf sprint. If the race sets up for a closer, watch out for Neil Drysdale-trained Oleksandra, the Australia-bred 7-year-old mare who will be flying late under Joel Rosario. Lighthouse was a dynamo on the Kentucky Downs turf course in September, winning the Music City Stakes by 1 1/2 lengths and Umberto Rispoli rides the turf as well as any jockey in the game.

https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/SA010921USA9-EQB.html

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