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February 9, 2025 Jeff Siegel’s “What You Need to Know” Santa Anita Park ______________________________________________________________________________ Santa Anita Race 1: Post: 11:00 PT Grade: B- Main Ticket: 1-Baldoro; 8-Agency. Backups: 5-Neon Lights (Ire). Forecast: Fresh from a game win facing a bit softer foes over the local lawn last month, Baldoro seeks a repeat score and is well-placed for […]

February 8, 2025 Jeff Siegel’s “What You Need to Know” Santa Anita Park ______________________________________________________________________________ Santa Anita Race 1: Post: 12:30 PT Grade: C+ Main Ticket: 3-Nell’s Legacy; 9-Musical Number; 7-Pavel Is Appealing. Backups: 5-Press Your Luck Forecast: The Saturday opener is a spread affair for first level allowance sophomore fillies sprinting on grass. Nell’s Legacy has burned […]

February 7, 2025 Jeff Siegel’s “What You Need to Know” Santa Anita Park ______________________________________________________________________________ Santa Anita Race 1: Post: 12:30 PT Grade: B Main Ticket: Love Our Family; 5-Tiergarten. Backups: 1-Professor’s Pride. Forecast: Love Our Family returns to what seems to be her preferred surface and also drops to her claim ($16,000) level and gets an […]

February 2, 2025 Jeff Siegel’s “What You Need to Know” Santa Anita Park ______________________________________________________________________________ Santa Anita Race 1: Post: 12:00 PT Grade: C+ Main Ticket: 6-Bizzee Channel 1-Great King; 3-Mas Rapido (GB); 8-Time to Party. Backups: 4-Moody Jim; 7-Megayacht. Forecast: The Sunday opener is a grass grab bag requiring considerable coverage in rolling exotic play. Bizzee Channel is […]

February 1, 2025 Jeff Siegel’s “What You Need to Know” Santa Anita Park ______________________________________________________________________________ Santa Anita Race 1: Post: 12:00 PT Grade: C+ Main Ticket: 6-Dealers Special; 5- El Rey Rey; 9-Navajo Warrior Backups: 10-Brave Blend; 1-Big Juanito; 4-Spearfish. Forecast: The Saturday opener is an inscrutable starter optional claimer for older horses over nine furlongs […]

January 31, 2025 Jeff Siegel’s “What You Need to Know” Santa Anita Park ______________________________________________________________________________ Santa Anita Race 1: Post: 12:30 PT Grade: C Main Ticket: Benster Backups: 1-Thirst for Passion. Forecast: Five of the seven entrants in the Friday opener exit the same race, so there’s not much we can do with it. Benster has been knocking […]

January 26, 2025 Jeff Siegel’s “What You Need to Know” Santa Anita Park ______________________________________________________________________________ Santa Anita Race 1: Post: 12:00 PT Grade: B+ Main Ticket: Defiance Backups: 9-Nafisa. Forecast: Defiance debuts in this extended turf sprint for older maiden fillies and mares and has looked extremely precocious in a series of visually impressive breezes for trainer […]

January 25, 2025 Jeff Siegel’s “What You Need to Know” Santa Anita Park ______________________________________________________________________________ Santa Anita Race 1: Post: 12:00 PT Grade: C+ Main Ticket: 6-America’s Mark; 8-Odies Memory Lane; 7-Thetribehasspoken. Backups: 2-Om N Joy. Forecast: America’s Mark flashed speed sprinting on dirt in her only start last fall at Del Mar and faded late but there’s […]

January 24, 2025 Jeff Siegel’s “What You Need to Know” Santa Anita Park ______________________________________________________________________________ Santa Anita Race 1: Post: 12:30 PT Grade: B- Main Ticket: 2-She’s Splendid; 5-Amelia Bleu; 3-God’s Favor. Backups: none. Forecast: The Friday program begins with a challenging $25,000 claiming turf miler for fillies and mares. There are at least three logical contenders, […]

January 23, 2025 Jeff Siegel’s “What You Need to Know” Santa Anita Park ______________________________________________________________________________ Santa Anita Race 1: Post: 12:30 PT Grade: B- Main Ticket: 5-Orange Thunder; 4-Lady Mendelssohn Backups: 2-Sasafran. Forecast: Orange Thunder stretches out again and based on the company she’s been chasing appears to have found a much easier spot, one that should […]

January 19, 2025 Jeff Siegel’s “What You Need to Know” Santa Anita Park ______________________________________________________________________________ Santa Anita Race 1: Post: 11:30 PT Grade: A- Main Ticket: 7-No Bad Beats; 3-Pam and Tina (Ire). Backups: none. Forecast: Although she was beaten at 40 cents on the dollar and saw her Beyer speed figure drop 17 points from […]

January 18, 2025 Jeff Siegel’s “What You Need to Know” Santa Anita Park ______________________________________________________________________________ Santa Anita Race 1: Post: 11:30 PT Grade: B- Main Ticket: 3-Shapoval; 7-Lord Dunmore. Backups: none. Forecast: Lord Dunmore looks logical on paper in a weak race for maiden special weight sophomore grass sprinters. However, his numbers are far below par for […]

January 16, 2025 Jeff Siegel’s “What You Need to Know” Santa Anita Park ______________________________________________________________________________ Santa Anita Race 1: Post: 12:00 PT Grade: B- Main Ticket: 4-Over the Ocean; 5-Mysterious Husband; 1-Final Edition Backups: 3-Goodfella. Forecast: There’s little separation on form among several contenders in this nine furlong maiden special weight turf affair for older horses. Over […]