Is it time to change the way stakes are scheduled?

TAKE, for example, a Februaryweekend at Santa Anita thiswinter where the track’s famedLa Canada series for four-year-old fillies concluded with theGrade 2 La Canada at nine furlongs onSunday, Feb. 13, one day followingSaturday’s Grade 2 Santa Maria …

Graded stakes scheduling across the country has become farcical in recent years, says Sid Fernando, with too many races for the same types of horses clustered together to make them meaningful events in their own right, on many levels.

By Sid Fernando

First Published (20 April 2011 - Issue Number: Issue 20)

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