Santa Anita reinstitutes Ship & Stay program, releases condition book
With opening day fast approaching on Wednesday, Dec. 26, Santa Anita Park has announced its “Ship & Stay” program for out of state horses running at the upcoming 2018-2019 Winter/Spring Meeting. This announcement has been made in conjunction with the issuance of Santa Anita’s Winter Meet Condition Book One.
Funded solely by Santa Anita and The Stronach Group, the new “Ship & Stay” offering will provide on-going bonuses to individual trainers who bring horses to run at Santa Anita from out of state. Bonuses will be paid to the connections which originally brought the horses to California for their first three starts at Santa Anita. These bonuses will be paid even if the horse is claimed.
Rules of eligibility:
• “Ship & Stay” is available to all horses that have made their most recent start outside of California and have not raced in California in the past 12 months.
• First time starters and stakes horses are not eligible.
• “Ship & Stay” will provide a 10 percent purse bonus to the trainer after the horse’s first start.
• A 10 percent purse bonus, or $1,000, whichever is higher, will be provided for each individual horse’s second and third start. These monies will be allocated to the trainer who brought the horse or horses to California.
Following is Santa Anita’s initial stakes offering through the 13 days of Winter Book One:
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26
-$300,000, Grade I Malibu Stakes - 3-year-olds, seven furlongs
-$300,000, Grade I La Brea Stakes - 3-year-old fillies, seven furlongs
-$300,000 San Antonio Stakes - 3-year-olds & up, 1 1/16 miles
-$200,000 Mathis Brothers Mile - 3-year-olds, mile turf
-$75,000 Lady of Shamrock Stakes - 3-year-old fillies, mile turf
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28
-$75,000 Eddie Logan Stakes - 2-year-olds, mile turf
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29
-$300,000, Grade I American Oaks - 3-year-old fillies, 1 ¼ miles on turf
-$150,000, Grade III Robert J. Frankel Stakes - fillies & mares, three and up, 1 1/8 miles turf
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30
-$75,000 Blue Norther Stakes - 2-year-old fillies, mile turf
TUESDAY, JANUARY 1
-Grade III, $100,000 Joe Hernandez Stakes - older horses, 6 ½ furlongs hillside turf
SATURDAY, JANUARY 5
-Grade II, $200,000 San Gabriel Stakes - older horses, 1 1/8 miles turf
-Grade III, $100,000 Sham Stakes - 3-year-olds, one mile
SUNDAY, JANUARY 6
-Grade II, $200,000 Santa Ynez Stakes - 3-year-old fillies, seven furlongs
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12
-Grade III, $100,000 La Canada Stakes - older fillies & mares, 1 1/16 miles
-Grade III, $100,000 Las Cienegas Stakes - older fillies & mares, 6 ½ furlongs hillside turf
SUNDAY, JANUARY 13
-$75,000 Kalookan Queen Stakes - older fillies & mares, 6 ½ furlongs