Bob Baffert looks set to continue his winning streak on December 10 at Racetrack Los Alamitos in Starlet Stakes (G1), where he holds three of the seven items including Faiza , Fast and shiny and doinithehardway .
The West Coast coach has dominated the 1st place race for the past five years with dream tree (2017), Chasing yesterday (2018), bastard (2019), Varda (2020), and Eda (2021).
The 1/16-mile event for 2-year-olds was led by Faiza, who was added to the race for $10,000. Starlet will pay a guaranteed amount of $300,000 to the winner.
Earlier this year, Michael Lund Peterson purchased Faiza for $725,000 from Paul Sharp’s shipment for the Two-year-old Fasig-Tipton Midlantic in Sales Coaching. Kentucky’s half-blood daughter girvin The first launch was successful on November 12 at Del Mar where she made a dominating run to the win in 3 and a half minutes.
She’ll be up against her stable friend Fast and Shiny, the only one of Baffert’s participants with experience in classified holdings. The Bernardini she broke her maiden first August 7 in Del Mar and ran again on September 10 TVG Del Mar Debutante Stakes (G1) where she missed the mark to place fifth after And Tell Me Nolies .
In her last two starts, the little girl finished fourth in the October 9 Surfer Girl Stakes (G3) and sixth in an optional claim race. The Kentucky Mixed Fat Dog is a $150,000 purchase from Keeneland’s September 2021 Annual Sale for the Three Amigos Racing Stable from Hidden Brook shipment.
The Three Amigos include Michael Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman, who also own the trainer’s last entry, Doinitthehardway. ‘s daughter street feeling Doinitthehardway has yet to achieve track success after three starts in the first special weight class races at Del Mar. She finished second after Fast and Shiny on August 7, third on September 11, and second on November 25. Dancing on ice .
This filth was another purchase by Three Amigos at the September 2021 Annual Sale in Keeneland, where the team spent $240,000 to secure her off the Warrendale Sale.
Trying to break Baffert’s back-to-back wins is coach Michael McCarthy, who entered the California hybrid tournament can not control . Daughter of start won her first attempt in July but has yet to find a winner’s circle again, runner-up in her last two starts including Generous Stakes September 5 and finally the Chandelier Stock October 8 (G2).
Most recently, she was acquired by Repole Stable for $130,000 from Training & Base Sales for Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company Spring Sales for two-year-olds in training. .
Other candidates include intern Leandro Mora Pride of the Nile who came to Starlet with two wins in his last two starts as well as a fourth in the Del Mar Teenager Turf Bet on September 10. Stonestreet’s mixed-race daughter Pioneer of the Nile campaigned by the West Coast Stables.
Completing this field is the runner-up Desi Arnaz Stakes on November 19 lucky touch who trained Pierre Jean and Leslie Amestoy by Tim Yakteen, and Beasley Roger, and intern Jorge Periban Classymademoiselle who broke her virginity in September for owner Javier Perez.
Item: Star S. (G1)
LOS ALAMITOS COURSE, Saturday, December 10, 2022, Stage 9
- Grade I
- 1 1/16m
- dust
- 300,000 USD
- 2 year old girl
- 4:30pm (local)
