Author: Dave Bontempo

California gamblers can embrace a four-day holiday weekend horse-racing package at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia. The lineup includes a Friday card with seven races, followed by nine-race programs and a $100,000 stakes race Saturday through Monday. California horse race betting enthusiasts also can play the popular Coast to Coast Pick 5 in the $1 […]

Santa Anita Park bettors will observe two significant trends before the Friday-Sunday cards at the Arcadia oval, just north of Los Angeles. Speed has returned. Frontrunners are again doing well as the track has appeared to drain from the rain deluge of December and January. That’s a handicapping tool bettors will put into their assessments. […]

Show people the money. That’s what Santa Anita Park intends to do with a power-packed weekend lineup. After a Friday card, the Arcadia facility has a loaded weekend slate. The main attraction is four stakes races that propel its Saturday purse payout to $960,000, one of the industry’s best. Santa Anita follows on Sunday with […]

What’s better than horse races from coast to coast? A Pick 5 pool that links them. Santa Anita Park horse-racing bettors have begun flocking to the Coast to Coast Pick 5. It’s a new joint venture between the Great Race Place and Gulfstream Park in Florida that runs every Saturday and Sunday. As the name […]

Here’s a trifecta for California horse racing betting enthusiasts this weekend at Santa Anita Park. Live racing Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 12:30 p.m., at the Great Race Place, located just north of Los Angeles in Arcadia. A pair of $200,000 races on the Saturday card, a Coast to Coast Pick 5 between Santa Anita and […]

Here comes bonus time. California horse race betting enthusiasts had been staring at a two-day racing weekend at Santa Anita Park, because the card on Martin Luther King Day had replaced the program scheduled for this Friday. But then came the rains and postponement of last Saturday’s card. And, presto, the lost card falls into […]

Santa Anita Park horse racing bettors meet a stacked tripleheader this weekend. Solid Friday and Sunday cards bookend a Saturday Spectacular, which features a big lineup: More than $1 million in purses in California-bred races, known as the California Cup A lucrative mandatory Pick 6 payout A 10-race card  A cross-country venture with Gulfstream Park […]