Santa Anita has scheduled 29 stakes from May 16 through June 21, but nine races, including four Grade 1 races, will have lower purse levels than originally scheduled before the track was closed in late March because of the coronavirus outbreak. Santa Anita intends to reopen on May 15, pending approval from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Santa Anita last raced on March 22 and was closed by county health officials on March 27 when deemed a nonessential business in the pandemic. When racing resumes, no spectators will be permitted ontrack, terms that were in place for five racing days from March 14 through 22. The revised stakes schedule has two premier days – Monday, May 25, and Saturday, June 6. The May 25 program will include the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile and Grade 1 Gamely Stakes, which will be worth $300,000 each, a reduction of $200,000 from the original schedule; and the Grade 2 Monrovia Stakes, which remains at $200,000. :: To stay up to date, follow us on: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter There are seven stakes scheduled for June 6, including the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby and Grade 1 Gold Cup at Santa Anita. The Santa Anita Derby was scheduled for April 4 with a purse of $1 million, but will be worth $400,000. The Gold Cup, originally scheduled for May 25, will be worth $300,000, a decline of $200,000. The June 6 program will include the Grade 2 Santa Anita Oaks, which was scheduled for April 4. The purse of the Santa Anita Oaks is unchanged at $200,000. The Santa Anita Oaks and Santa Anita Derby were positioned on the original calendar as a prep races for the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in early May. Churchill Downs announced in March that the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby have been delayed to Sept. 4-5 because of the coronavirus outbreak. The purses of 20 stakes at Santa Anita in coming weeks are unchanged from the original calendar. The track has canceled 14 stakes that were scheduled from late March to early May, largely because they overlap with races on the revised calendar. For example, the Grade 2 Royal Heroine Stakes, a $200,000 race for fillies and mares at a mile on turf, was scheduled for April 4 as an early spring prep race for the Gamely. If racing resumes on May 15 as planned, Santa Anita will have lost 21 days of racing because of the pandemic. The track is operating largely on a Friday-through-Sunday basis this year. When racing resumes, a bonus system will be enacted designed to encourage owners to send horses to Santa Anita from outside of California. Known as the Sunshine Bonus, the program has similarities to a longstanding popular program at Del Mar. The Santa Anita program will pay a 50-percent bonus of prize money earned for first through fifth-place finishes in a non-stakes race, provided the horse has not raced in California in the last 12 months and had its last start outside of the state. All runners whose previous starts were outside the state will receive a $3,000 bonus, provided they have not raced in California for 12 months. First-time starters and stakes horses will not be eligible for those bonuses. The program was developed earlier this year and was supposed to have started in early April.