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Santa Anita Autumn Meet opens with Eddie D. featured
Top trainers such as Bob Baffert, Jerry Hollendorfer, Peter Miller, John Sadler and Doug O'Neill figure to once again vie for leading trainer honors. Hollendorfer, who dead-heated atop the Santa Anita Spring standings with Sadler, has a deep and varied stable that is currently headed by the undefeated champion Shared Belief, who is slated to run next in the $300,000 Awesome Again on Saturday -- his final prep for the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic on November 1. Recent winner of the Pacific Classic, Shared Belief will be the subject of a full color poster to be given away free of charge to the first 4,000 attendees on Friday. The featured race on Friday's card is the Grade 3, $100,000 Eddie D., an about 6 1/2-furlong turf sprint that serves as a course-and-distance tune-up for the $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint on November 1. Unbridled's Note, who won the 2012 Eddie D. and finished third by a half-length in his title defense last season, is back for another go. The Steve Asmussen trainee's win two years ago came in the horse's grass debut, and the son of Unbridled's Song has subsequently won the 2013 editions of the Joe Hernandez Handicap and Daytona over the Santa Anita turf. Unraced since February, Unbridled's Note ran second and fourth, behind the filly Mizdirection, in the past two runnings of the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint. Ambitious Brew, undefeated in three starts on Santa Anita's turf, was last seen in February taking the $100,000 Sensational Star for California-breds and has been working lights-out at Los Alamitos for trainer Marty Jones. Also likely to attract support are Pure Tactics, Lil Bit O'Fun, Global Power, and the three-year-old Home Run Kitten. First post time on opening day will be at 1 p.m. (PDT). Admission gates will open at 11 a.m.
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