San Francisco Chronicle

This week at Golden Gate Fields

- — Larry Stumes, Special to The Chronicle

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.

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