Nysos and Malibu Stakes headline Santa Anita opener

ARCADIA — Opening day at Santa Anita always features twice the intrigue of a normal day at the races, offering well-known horses a chance to cap a successful year and rising stars a springboard to a big new year.

For at least one horse this time, it offers both.

Nysos is the marquee name among the runners in six graded stakes on an 11-race card beginning at 11 a.m. Sunday as he starts as a 3-5 morning-line favorite in the $200,000, Grade II Laffit Pincay Jr. Stakes. The 4-year-old...