Santa Anita has made minimal changes to the stakes schedule for its six-week autumn meeting from Sept. 29 to Nov. 5, a season highlighted by the Breeders’ Cup races on Nov. 3-4. There are 14 stakes from Sept. 29 through Oct. 8 designed as preps for BC races. Four of those races offer automatic berths to BC races through the Win and You’re In program – the Awesome Again Stakes at 1 1/8 miles on dirt, American Pharoah Stakes for 2-year-olds, the Chandelier Stakes for 2-year-old fillies, and the Rodeo Drive Stakes for fillies and mares on turf. The Speakeasy Stakes for 2-year-old turf sprinters at Santa Anita was part of the Win and You’re In series in 2022, but was not included in the program this year. :: Bet the races with a $250 First Deposit Match + $10 Free Bet and FREE Formulator PPs! Join DRF Bets. The Awesome Again, American Pharoah, and Rodeo Drive are worth $300,000, the richest non-Breeders’ Cup races of the meeting. The dates of some BC prep stakes have been moved. The meeting’s first stakes is the Grade 3 Chillingworth Stakes for fillies and mares at 6 1/2 furlongs Friday, Sept. 29. The race was run on the first Sunday of the meeting last year. There are 16 Breeders’ Cup-affiliated races – 14 seven-figure races that carry Breeders’ Cup names as well as the $150,000 Qatar Golden Mile for 2-year-olds on turf on Nov. 3, and the $250,000 Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance at 1 3/4 miles on dirt on Nov. 4. The purses of three stakes have been increased. Two stakes have been raised $50,000 – the $150,000 The Sen. Ken Maddy Stakes for fillies and mares on the hillside turf course on Nov. 3, and the Grade 2 Twilight Derby at 1 1/8 miles on turf on Nov. 4 will be worth $250,000. The Unzip Me Stakes at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course for 3-year-old fillies will be worth $100,000 on Oct. 1, an increase of $15,000. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.