This week at Golden Gate Fields
Schedule: Friday through Sunday Post time: 1:15 p.m. Feature simulcast race: Grade 3, $150,000 Daytona Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita Update: According to track officials, post time has been moved back 30 minutes this week as a trial to see if out-of-state betting can be increased. … Abel Cedillo, who won the riding title at the 2016-17 winterspring season, leads the current standings with 32 winners from 176 mounts. Completing the top five are William Antongeorgi III (26-165), Juan Hernandez (25-138), Pedro Terrero (22-124) and Silvio Amador (20-96). … Jonathan Wong and Jerry Hollendorfer are tied for the lead among trainers with 19 winners apiece. Wong has had 75 starters to Hollendorfer’s 109. Completing the top five are John F. Martin (1878), Victor Trujillo (11-65) and Tim McCanna (11-68. Elsewhere: Hillside turf-course specialist Stormy Liberal is the 2-1 morning-line favorite for the Daytona Stakes in his first start of 2018. The 6-year-old gelding has seven wins and three seconds in 12 starts going about 6½ furlongs down the hill, including a victory in the 2017 Daytona Stakes. He also transferred his form to 5 furlongs at Del Mar to win the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint as a 30-1 long shot and has earned $752,700 since being claimed for $40,000 by trainer Peter Miller. Stormy Liberal ended 2017 by finishing 11th of 13 in the $2.4 million Hong Kong Sprint. … My Kentucky Derby top 10: McKinzie, Audible, Good Magic, Solomini, Catholic Boy, Bolt d’Oro, Avery Island, Instilled Regard, Kanthaka, My Boy Jack.