Road to the 2024 Kentucky Derby starts Saturday at Santa Anita
by John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times
Oct 05, 2023
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — The start of the West Coast path to the Kentucky Derby starts Saturday at Santa Anita Park with the running of the Grade 1 $300,000 American Pharoah Stakes. But, the new question facing the business is do the races for 2-year-olds mean as much as they used to?
There was a time when conditioning a horse meant getting a good foundation under them by running them a lot before the Triple Crown series. Not so much anymore.
"Horsemen are circling the first Saturday in May and
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