SANTA ANITA LEADERS

(Through Thursday)

JOCKEYS / WINS

Juan Hernandez / 19

Frankie Dettori / 8

Edwin Maldonado / 8

John Velazquez / 7

Mike Smith / 6

TRAINERS / WINS

Bob Baffert / 12

Doug O’Neill / 8

Mark Glatt / 7

George Papaprodromou / 6

John Sadler / 6

WEEKEND STAKES AT SANTA ANITA

Saturday

• $200,000 Grade II San Pasqual Stakes, 4-year-olds and up, 1 1/8 miles

• $200,000 Grade III Las Virgenes Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 1 mile

Sunday

• $200,000 Grade II San Vicente Stakes, 3-year-olds, 7 furlongs

• $100,000 Clockers’ Corner Stakes, 4-year-olds and up, 6 1/2 furlongs downhill turf course

DOWN THE STRETCH

• Saturday’s $3 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park, highlighted by Cyberknife, Defunded and White Abarrio, will be televised by NBC, beginning at 1:30 p.m. The network will also televise the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf. Cyberknife won the Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park and is the 5-2 morning-line favorite in the seventh running of the Pegasus. Bob Baffert will try to win the 1 1/8-mile race for the third time with Defunded. Morning-line favorite Ivar, City Man and Speaking Scout headline the Pegasus Turf.

• The highly regarded Faustin headlines a Baffert-trained quartet entered for Sunday’s $200,000 Grade II San Vicente Stakes at Santa Anita. Baffert will also send out two-time graded-stakes winner Havnameltdown, Fort Warren and Gilmore in the 7-furlong test for 3-year-olds on the Kentucky Derby trail. Man Child is the fifth horse in the short five-horse field. On Saturday, Faiza, Justique and Pride of the Nile will go in the $200,000 Grade III Las Virgenes Stakes, a prep for the Santa Anita Oaks on April 1. Faiza is the 8-5 morning-line favorite.

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• Kazushi Kimura, who moved his tack to Santa Anita this winter, has been on a roll lately after a slow start. The 23-year-old native of Japan, who campaigned last winter at Turfway Park, won his first race at Santa Anita and first U.S. graded stakes Jan. 15, guiding Kristenbosch to a nose victory in the Grade III La Cañada Stakes. He came back to win two more races last Saturday. “He’s definitely gaining some momentum,” Kimura’s agent, Brandon O’Bryan, told Santa Anita’s Victor Ryan. “It may have been a touch slow earlier in the meet, but he’s got the ball rolling now.”

— Art Wilson