Santa Anita rained out again Sunday, set to resume racing Thursday

Santa Anita rained out again Sunday, set to resume racing Thursday

Santa Anita horse racing was canceled again Sunday as a rainy period in Southern California stretched to nearly two weeks. The track in Arcadia had also called off racing Saturday. It’s scheduled to resume Thursday, the first of two Thursday cards added to make up for rainouts. The announcement by Santa Anita management came shortly after 7 a.m. Sunday. As of 8:30, Los Alamitos hadn’t yet announced if its Sunday night quarter-horse and thoroughb…

Rain cancellations lead to stacked weekday card

An upside to the rain cancellations this winter at Santa Anita materializes Thursday with a normally mundane weekday card that looks instead like a strong weekend card.