San Francisco Chronicle

This week at Golden Gate Fields

- — Larry Stumes, Special to The Chronicle

Schedule: Thursday through Sunday Post time: 12:45 p.m., except 12:15 p.m. Sunday Feature simulcast races: Grade 1, $600,000 Santa Anita Handicap; Grade 2, $400,000 San Felipe Stakes — both Saturday at Santa Anita Update: the Triple moving who winter-spring has Crown its won Beginning first races. five race season stakes The Sunday, to noon new events, except post and post for including 11:30 time time earlier a.m. will correspond­s three be starts on 12:15 Sundays. Grade on p.m. to the Santa 3s, for … days G. runs the G. Anita of rest Ryder, for the a of $62,500 for the 1-mile claiming race price also includes in Thursday’s Zakaroff, fourth winless race. The since field his 48-1 of seven upset in the El Camino Real Derby on Feb. 18, 2017, and Sixes, who has won all three starts since being sent from Santa Anita to trainer Jonathan Wong. … Sir Vronski seeks his fifth straight victory when he steps up to the $32,000-$30,000 claiming level and shortens from 1 mile to 5½ furlongs in Friday’s sixth race. The versatile 7-year-old gelding has won 12 of 19 sprints and six of 12 races at 1 mile or longer and is 8-for-12 on synthetic, 6-for-11 on grass and 4-for-8 on dirt. Elsewhere: San Pasqual Stakes victor Accelerate and Hoppertuni­ty, who has earned $4,347,025 despite winning just seven of 29 starts, head a field of eight in the Santa Anita Handicap. … The track also has three $400,000 events: the San Felipe Stakes, featuring leading Kentucky Derby candidates McKinzie and Bolt d’Oro, the Grade 1 Frank E. Kilroe Mile, featuring champion turf horse World Approval, and the Grade 1 Triple Bend Stakes for sprinters. The 11⁄16-mile San Felipe Stakes also includes Kanthaka, who tries two turns for the first time for trainer Jerry Hollendorf­er after an impressive victory in the 7-furlong San Vicente Stakes. Hollendorf­er originally had planned to run Kanthaka in the Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham Stakes — a one-turn mile — Saturday at Aqueduct. … Firenze Fire, Free Drop Billy and Enticed top the entries for the Gotham Stakes. … The third Kentucky Derby prep race Saturday is the Grade 2, $400,000 Tampa Bay Derby at Tampa Bay Downs featuring Samuel F. Davis Stakes winner Flameaway. Free Drop Billy and Enticed also were entered for the Tampa Bay Derby. … Pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager runs Friday through Sunday. … My Kentucky Derby top 10: McKinzie, Audible, Solomini, Bolt d’Oro, Promises Fulfilled, Good Magic, Catholic Boy, Strike Power, Avery Island, Kanthaka.

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