With Santa Anita not running on Dec. 26 for the first time in 43 years, it has prompted track officials to reschedule several races. As a result, Saturday\u2019s opening day card will now feature seven stakes races.<\/p>\n
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That includes the Grade I Runhappy Malibu Stakes, which is scheduled to feature Omaha Beach in the final race of his 3-year-old campaign. While an entrapped epiglottis kept him from running as the likely favorite in the Grade I Kentucky Derby, the Richard Mandella-trained horse has still won three graded stakes races this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A win on Saturday would give him his third Grade I win in 2019, which would match Maximum Security for tops among 3-year-olds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are doing the right thing by moving the races,\u201d Mandella said. \u201cI\u2019m just very happy to be in the race with this horse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A rainy Christmas forecast has prompted Santa Anita officials to hold off on the start of the Winter\/Spring meet at the Southern California track. The meet was scheduled to start Thursday. However, track officials over the weekend decided to push back the start until Saturday, citing the precipitation meteorologists expect will hit the Los Angeles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":122929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14577,16],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Rainy Forecast Prompts Santa Anita to Delay Start of Meet to Saturday<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n