Santa Anita Set for San Luis Obispo, San Antonio ‘Caps

Santa Anita has two seven-horse fields for its weekend stakes, the $150,000 San Luis Obispo Handicap today and the $200,000 San Antonio Handicap on Sunday.

Scruples has top weight of 121 pounds in the San Luis Obispo, and two Charlie Whittingham-trained horses, Hail Bold King and Lord at War, share high weight of 122 in the San Antonio.

Other starters in the San Antonio are Al Mamoon, Tennessee Rite, Video Kid, My Habitony and American Standard.

Fernando Toro, who rides Nelson Bunker Hunt’s mare Fact Finder in the San Luis Obispo on the grass, has won all four of the turf races this season.

Hunt, a Dallas billionaire; Bruce McNall, one of the original owners of the Dallas Mavericks; and Allen Paulson, an airplane manufacturer from Encino, are the principal owners of Dahar, the Hunt-bred 4-year-old colt who will try for his third straight grass win at Santa Anita this season when he runs Monday in the $100,000 Sierra Nevada Handicap.