The second of two graded-stakes races slated to go on Saturday afternoon at Santa Anita Park is the $200,000 Grade II Arcadia Stakes for horses four-years-old and up, running a […]
The second of two graded-stakes races slated to go on Saturday afternoon at Santa Anita Park is the $200,000 Grade II Arcadia Stakes for horses four-years-old and up, running a flat mile on the turf. With the scratch of Peace and Justice, it’s expected nine will go to the gate. The field is a competitive mix that includes a pair of Argentine-breds, one from the UK and one from France. The lukewarm morning line favorite is one of the Argentina horses in the form of Winning Prize, listed at 3-1.
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Trained by Neil Drysdale, Winning Prize was a Grade I winner in South America before shipping north and winning first time out at the allowance level. He then finished fourth in the Grade I Shadwell Turf Mile Stakes, and followed that up with a third in the Grade II Citation Handicap. Second choice in the ML is the other Argentina runner, Suggestive Boy at 7-2. Running in the US since 2012, he won the Grade II Arcadia Stakes in early 2013 and followed that up by winning the Grade I Frank E. Kilroe Mile Stakes, but has been away from the racetrack since.
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A live long shot in the exotics could be the Florida-bred Procurement, who will break form the rail post and is listed at 12-1 in the ML. A four-year-old from Milwaukee Brew, he was just finishing out of the money in a string of graded-stakes races before running second in the Grade II Sir Beaufort Stakes in late December. At 5-1, Irish-bred Vagabond Shoes was first or second in three straight Grade I or II events before running fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at 27-1 in his last start.
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