The California Crown is horse racing’s latest headline day of racing and wagering set to happen Saturday, Sept. 28 at Santa Anita Park. The inaugural occasion is positioned to be a life-style celebration on the social calendar centered round a day on the races. It’ll characteristic culinary choices from movie star cooks and dwell performances by world-renowned musical artists to associate with first-class Thoroughbred racing, headlined by the operating of the $1 million, Grade 1 California Crown Stakes.
California Crown day will instantly take its place as California’s richest day of racing outdoors of the Breeders’ Cup. The California Crown Stakes itself is the reimagined model of the race previously referred to as the Superior Once more Stakes, a 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds and older that serves as California’s remaining main steppingstone for horses pointing to the $7 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Traditional.
The total race day Sept. 28 will provide $3 million in elevated purses, together with the California Crown Stakes and an undercard that includes the $750,000, Grade 2 California Crown John Henry Turf Championship Stakes, the $750,000, Grade 2 California Crown Eddie D Turf Dash Stakes, the $200,000, Grade 2 Metropolis of Hope Mile Stakes, and the $100,000 Unzip Me Stakes introduced by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance. Seize your tickets as we speak!
The sector for the California Crown is already taking form and the race is anticipated to characteristic a headline matchup between Arkansas Derby winner Muth and Senor Buscador, the winner of the $20 million Saudi Cup. A loaded discipline of challengers can be anticipated, together with a number of horses exiting Del Mar’s FanDuel Racing Pacific Traditional.
The California Crown is delivered to you by 1/ST, the identical those that convey you Pegasus World Cup day every January at Gulfstream Park, the place they’ve perfected the thought of mixing horse racing with the most effective components of leisure and life-style. The California Crown is supposed to develop right into a West Coast model of the race-day and social occasion that Pegasus World Cup day has develop into at Gulfstream Park in south Florida.
“The California Crown is the premier occasion Santa Anita Park has been ready for,” stated Belinda Stronach, the chairman and CEO of 1/ST. “Working with companions like The h.wooden Group and Chrome Hearts, 1/ST has set the stage for a brand new California custom for leisure, life-style, and hospitality to enrich the best-in-class Thoroughbred racing and wagering synonymous with 1/ST and this iconic venue.”
Fortunately for devoted horseplayers, the day is not going to be solely about dressing up and sipping cocktails whereas listening to DJs. Santa Anita has additionally put lots of effort into making the wagering menu as interesting as attainable for bettors. The main target might be on making the day a singular alternative for handicappers.
Santa Anita’s plentiful each day wagering choices embrace a number of 15% takeout bets just like the late double, late Decide 3, an all-turf Decide 3, and the 1/ST Coast to Coast Decide 5 on Saturdays and Sundays (together with Gulfstream Park), plus the each day early Decide 5 that has a 14% takeout and a low .50-cent minimal denomination. Moreover, there might be loads of specials on the California Crown wagering menu for bettors to sink their tooth into together with two-day wagers.
The California Crown day wagering menu will embrace the California Crown All-Stakes Decide 5 with a $1 minimal guess and a low 15% takeout combining the day’s 5 stakes races. There will even be a California Crown All-Turf Stakes Decide 4 with 15% takeout and a $2 minimal that hooks up the undercard grass stakes on a single guess.
Deliberate two-day wagers that may mix races on Saturday, Sept. 28 together with Santa Anita races on Sunday, Sept. 29 – all with a low 15% takeout – will embrace a pair of particular $5 Day by day Doubles with Saturday’s California Crown Eddie D paired with Sunday’s Santa Anita Dash Championship, and one other one pairing Saturday’s California Crown Stakes with the Zenyatta Stakes on Sunday.
There will even be a $2 Two-Day All Stakes Decide 4 combining Saturday’s California Crown Turf Championship and California Crown Stakes with Sunday’s Santa Anita Dash Championship and Zenyatta Stakes. Additionally search for a $1 Two-Day All-Stakes Decide 6 combining 4 races on Saturday with Sunday’s two stakes.
The California Crown would be the second race in 1/ST’s Grand 3 racing and incentive sequence connecting the 2024 Preakness Stakes, the California Crown, and the 2025 Pegasus World Cup. The 1/ST Grand 3 features a $5 million Decide’Em Problem bonus for handicappers that may appropriately predict the highest 4 finishers of the Preakness, California Crown, and 2025 Pegasus World Cup in precise order. 5 handicappers who appropriately submitted the highest 4 finishers of the Preakness so as stay eligible for that bonus. Even when nobody wins the $5 million grand prize, 1/ST continues to be making a gift of $100,000 in comfort prizes. For extra data on the $5 Million Grand 3 Decide’ Em Problem go to https://californiacrown.com/1stgrand3.
You may guess on all of the motion on monitor at Santa Anita, at 1/ST BET, the official betting app of the California Crown, and in any respect different ADW platforms that supply wagering on racing from Santa Anita. To obtain the 1/ST BET app, go to www.1stbet.com.
If handicapping and betting aren’t your forte, you’ll be able to nonetheless win huge on-track on race day within the California Crown’s “Photograph End” best-dressed competitors open to all company and providing $25,000 in prizes whereas encouraging attendees to showcase their distinctive race-day type.
Particular person tickets for the California Crown can be found beginning at $25 for the Common Admission Park Cross with entry to the betting home windows, trackside apron, meals and concessions, and the paddock gardens. All kinds of upscale hospitality packages are additionally obtainable at www.californiacrown.com.
First publish for the California Crown on Saturday, Sept. 28 is 12:30 p.m. PT. NBC Sports activities will produce a two-hour telecast starting at 3 p.m. PT/6 p.m. ET airing on CNBC and Peacock.
To remain linked on The California Crown, go to @californiacrownofficial on Instagram, TikTok and @Calicrownofficial on X.
