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Headlines

Friday’s Rainbow 6 carryover will be $181,922 … Stakes features this week are Saturday’s Grade 3 San Luis Rey for turf marathoners and Sunday’s Sensational Star for turf sprinters ... Triple Tap, half-brother to 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, debuted a sharp winner March 13 at Santa Anita over 7 furlongs. Bob Baffert provided no firm future plan in the post-race … Congrats to 2020 Preakness-winning filly Swiss Skydiver on her successful 4-year-old debut, capturing the March 13 Grade 1 Beholder Mile with ease … Santa Anita announced last week that racing will be cancelled April 9 and 16, and there will be no turf racing April 10 and 11 to help protect the grass course.

Stronach 5
Last week’s Stronach 5 was postponed, resulting in a 2-week-old $154,931 carryover into this week’s offering. Stronach 5 races this Friday, March 19, will be:
Leg A – Laurel Park Race 8 with an approximate post time of 4:30 ET
Leg B – Gulfstream Park Race 8 with an approximate post time of 4:48 ET
Leg C – Laurel Park Race 9 with an approximate post time of 5:03 ET
Leg D – Santa Anita Park Race 3 with an approximate post time of 5:08 ET
Leg E – Golden Gate Fields Race 3 with an approximate post time of 5:25 ET

1/ST BET Top Factors Last Week:

Horseplayers using the 1/ST BET app saw the most success with these 3 of the 52 handicapping filters for Santa Anita Park last week, each winning at a 40% or greater win rate and showing a flat-bet profit. The 1/ST BET app picked a whopping 48% winners on top last week at Santa Anita, the top-performing track for the algorithm during that time.

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Trends Last Week

-- Favorites dominated the going at 25: 14-3-3, producing 56% wins. Turf favorites were strongest at 13: 8-2-1 (62% wins, 77% in exacta).

-- Jockey Flavien Prat continued his roll at 25: 9-5-3. That’s 45% wins and 70% in the exacta, providing a $1.23 ROI for every $1 bet. Prat won with 8 different trainers, doubling up with Richard Baltas.

-- Apprentice jockey Emily Ellingwood had a strong 5: 2-1-0 record, riding 9-2 and 6-1 winners for trainer Ryan Hanson both at 7 furlongs.

-- Trainer Ryan Hanson was exacta perfection at 5: 2-3-0 on the week. All 5 starters came in dirt sprints, and both winners were over 7 furlongs.

-- Assistant trainer Leandro Moro went 8: 3-3-0 as the program trainer for suspended Doug O’Neill. Winners paid $7, $8 and $21 while the barn added a 9-1 runner-up.