BC Events Highlight Santa Anita's Autumn Meet
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Santa Anita Park's 2015 autumn meet will be highlighted by six grade I Breeders' Cup Challenge races, the Southern California track announced July 22.
The meeting will consist of 19 racing days—Sept. 26 through Oct. 25—and will feature 21 added-money events, 12 of which are graded.
With this year's Breeders' Cup World Championships scheduled to be run at Keeneland Oct. 30-31, Santa Anita will offer five grade I Breeders' Cup preps on opening day, a Saturday; including the FrontRunner Stakes, for 2-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles; the Awesome Again Stakes, for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/8 miles; the Chandelier Stakes, for 2-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles; the Rodeo Drive Stakes, for fillies and mares 3 and up at 1 1/4 miles on turf; and the Zenyatta Stakes, for fillies and mares 3 and up at 1 1/16 miles.
In addition to the aforementioned grade I offerings, Santa Anita will also offer five additional Breeders' Cup prep stakes: the City of Hope Mile (gr. II) for 3-year-olds and up Sept. 27, the Eddie D. (gr. IIIT) for 3-year- olds and up at 6 1/2 furlongs down the track's hillside turf course Oct. 3, the LA Woman (gr. III) at 6 1/2 furlongs on the main track, the Surfer Girl Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at a mile on turf, and the Zuma Beach Stakes for 2-year-olds at a mile on turf, both of which will be run Oct. 10.
Santa Anita will also offer the Autumn Miss Stakes (gr. IIIT), for 3-year-old fillies at a mile on turf Oct. 17; the Twilight Derby (gr. IIT), for 3-year-olds at 1 1/8 miles on turf Oct. 24; and the Senator Ken Maddy Stakes (gr. IIIT), for fillies and mares, 3 and up, at 6 1/2 furlongs down the track's hillside turf course on closing day, Oct. 25.
Dating back to the inaugural Breeders' Cup, which was held at Hollywood Park in 1984, Santa Anita-based horses have accounted for 56 overall Breeders' Cup wins.
Santa Anita's complete 2015 autumn stakes schedule can also be viewed at santaanita.com.