Santa Anita renames G1s

[Calzone Lord]

I don't think it does anything to ruin the class or tradition of Santa Anita racing.

It just shows that they can't even do a good job at something as simple as naming stakes races.

Naming a Grade 1 race for a horse who never even raced at your track is nuts. Especially when so many great ones have competed at Santa Anita and don't have a race named for them.

I'm fine with naming stakes The Rodeo Drive, The L. A Woman, and the Chandelier ... they want to be pretentious ... and those are pretentious names for stakes races.