After rain-soaked delay, Santa Anita gallops back into action on opening day
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After dodging the puddles during a particularly wet week, Santa Anita Park’s opening day finally arrived Sunday for its annual Classic Meet. Throngs of racing fans arrived, too, at the iconic Arcadia park. Sunday’s card featured six graded stakes races, highlighted by the Grade I Malibu Stakes on a mild Sunday with no sign of sprinkles. And it was a sunny day indeed for trainer Bob Baffert, whose horses Nysos and Nevada Beach captured first and second place in the Grade 2 Pincay Stakes. And his horses also won two Grade 1 events, as Usha won the La Brea and Goal Oriented finished first in the Malibu. Star of the day Nysos was a heavy favorite, going off at 1-5, having won six of...