Truly Quality puts win streak on the line at Santa Anita – San Bernardino Sun

SANTA ANITA LEADERS

(Through Sunday)

Jockeys / Wins

Juan Hernandez / 26

Flavien Prat / 24

Umberto Rispoli / 18

Hector Berrios / 15

Tiago Pereira / 11

Trainers / Wins

Bob Baffert / 15

Mark Glatt / 12

Jeff Mullins / 12

Doug O’Neill / 10

George Papaprodromou / 9

UPCOMING STAKES

SANTA ANITA

Saturday

• $100,000, Grade III San Marcos Stakes, 4-year-olds and up, 1¼ miles on turf

Sunday

• $100,000 Sweet Life Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, about 6½ furlongs on turf

DOWN THE STRETCH

• Truly Quality (Vincent Cheminaud riding), the Hollywood Turf Cup winner at Del Mar, goes for his fourth win in a row for trainer Jonathan Thomas when the 5-year-old gelding faces seven others in Saturday’s San Marcos Stakes at Santa Anita. Divin Propos (Umberto Rispoli) looks like the opponent most likely to improve on his Hollywood Turf Cup defeat.

• Monty Arrossa, one of Los Alamitos’ leading quarter-horse trainers, had three horses test positive for the prohibited bronchodilator carmoterol, according to the California Horse Racing Board’s website. American Dreamin failed tests twice, including after winning the Oct. 27 Golden State Million Futurity; Ab Seis Corazones once, after running second in the Nov. 10 Los Alamitos Super Derby; and Blood Viper once, in an out-of-competition test Oct. 20. Arrossa continues to enter horses during an investigation.

• A fatal injury to the 3-year-old colt Brummel in training Jan. 30 at Santa Anita marked the third death in racing and training since the Dec. 26 start of the current season at the Arcadia track, according to data on the CHRB site. That matches the number of deaths in the same period last year.

• The wins at Santa Anita on Saturday by Citizen Bull in the Robert B. Lewis Stakes and Kopion in the Santa Monica Stakes were validated by big Beyer speed figures. Citizen Bull’s 1:36.71 clocking for 1 mile received a 98 Beyer, the highest in a Kentucky Derby qualifying points race this season, and Kopion’s 1:21.27 for 7 furlongs got a 110, the best in any race in 2025.

• Kopion’s three stakes wins have all come in 7-furlong sprints, but trainer Richard Mandella said he would think about running the 4-year-old daughter of Omaha Beach in the 1-mile B. Wayne Hughes Beholder Mile at Santa Anita on March 8. Mandella trained Beholder, an Eclipse Award winner at ages 2, 3, 5 and 6.

• The Thoroughbred Owners of California recognized leading owners for 2024 in statistics compiled at the state’s racetracks. Reddam Racing led in earnings for the fourth consecutive year with $2,031,442, led by Stay and Scam. Hronis Racing led in wins with 35 from 142 starts, including Full Serrano in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile. Cuyathy LLC and the partnership of Sondereker Racing, Eric Kruljac, Robert Fetkin and Richard Thornburgh tied for the lead in stakes wins with five each; Cuyathy’s winners included Johannes, and the partnership raced The Chosen Vron.